Backfire 1950  N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Viveca Lindfors, Dane Clark, Ed Begley, Monte Blue, John Ridgely, Ida Moore, Richard Rober
Ex-GI Bob Corey (Gordon MacRae) is searching for his war buddy, Steve (Edmond O'Brien), who is on the run because of a bum murder rap. With his army nurse friend (Virginia Mayo) in tow, Bob intends to clear his friend, but the real murderer is now on the trail of Bob.
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Comin' Round the Mountain 1951  N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Lamont
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dorothy Shay, Kirby Grant, Margaret Hamilton, Glenn Strange, Joe Sawyer, Ida Moore, Guy Wilkerson, Russell Simpson
A family feud between the Winfields and the McCoys greets Al Stewart (Bud Abbott) and Wilbert (Lou Costello) when they head for the Kentucky hills to claim an inheritance.
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The Country Girl 1954  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Seaton
Cast: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden, Anthony Ross, Gene Reynolds, Eddie Ryder, Robert Kent, Frank J. Scannell, Jacqueline Fontaine, "Snub" Pollard, John W. Reynolds, Franklyn Farnum, Jon Provost, Ida Moore, Dan White
Devoted Georgie (Grace Kelly) must deal with her alcoholic husband, Frank (Bing Crosby), whose acting career is fading. Georgie plays the foil to hide her husband's problem with alcohol. Grace Kelly won an Oscar for her role; the film also won an Academy Award for Best Writing and had nominations for Best Picture, Actor (Crosby), Director, Cinematography, and Art Direction/Set Decoration.
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The Dark Mirror 1946 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Evans, Richard Long, Garry Owen, Lela Bliss, Lita Ward, William Halligan, Ida Moore
A police detective (Thomas Mitchell) must crack a murder case in which one of two sisters (both played by Olivia de Havilland) was identified as being at the scene of the crime. Finally, a psychologist (Lew Ayres) solves the mystery.
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Double Dynamite 1951 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Irving Cummings
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, Don McGuire, Howard Freeman, Harry Hayden, Nestor Paiva, Lou Nova, Joe Devlin, Frank Orth, William Edmunds, Russell Thorson, Charles Coleman, Ida Moore, Hal K. Dawson
Bank tellers Johnny Dalton (Frank Sinatra) and "Mibs" Goodhug (Jane Russell) want to get married but just don't have enough money. Their friend Emil J. Keck (Groucho Marx) jokingly suggests that they rob the bank to get the needed funds, but Johnny remains on the side of honesty. Then, Johnny wins $60,000 at the race track, but before he and Mibs can spend the money on their marriage, word leaks out that Johnny is the chief suspect in a $70,000 embezzlement at their bank. By story's end, it is learned that Mib's adding machine has a mechanical problem, no money is missing from the bank, and, maybe just maybe, Johnny and Mibs can live happily ever after.
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The Egg and I 1947 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Chester Erskine
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Marjorie Main, Louise Allbritton, Percy Kilbride, Donald MacBride, Samuel S. Hinds, Elisabeth Risdon, Fuzzy Knight, Esther Dale, Richard Long, Billy House, Ida Moore, John Berkes, Victor Potel
This witty story is based on Betty MacDonald's popular book about herself (Claudette Colbert) and her husband Bill's (Fred MacMurray) change in lifestyle when they moved from the city to take over a chicken ranch. Marjorie Main was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for her role as Ma Kettle.
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 Harvey 1950  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy
Director: Henry Koster
Cast: James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake, Victoria Horne, Cecil Kellaway, Jesse White, Wallace Ford, Nana Bryant, Clem Bevans, William H. Lynn, Grayce Mills, Gino Corrado, Ida Moore, Dick Wessel
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.
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It's a Joke, Son 1947 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Benjamin Stoloff
Cast: Kenny Delmar, Una Merkel, June Lockhart, Kenneth Farrell, Douglass Dumbrille, Jimmy Conlin, Matt Willis, Ralph Sanford, Vera Lewis, Margaret McWade, Ida Moore, Byron Foulger
The character "Senator Beauregard Claghorn" from Fred Allen's radio show comes to film. In this story, he finds himself in financial trouble and is talked into running for the state senate. Later, he learns that he is running against his own wife.
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The Lemon Drop Kid 1951 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Cast: Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan, Jane Darwell, Andrea King, Fred Clark, Jay C. Flippen, William Frawley, Tom Dugan, Harry Bellaver, Sid Melton, Ben Welden, Ida Moore, Tor Johnson, Jack Kruschen
Based on a Damon Runyan story, this is the remake of the 1934 film about a reformed gangster, The Lemon Drop Kid (Bob Hope). The Kid accidentally gives gangster Moose Moran (Fred Clark) a bad tip on a race. Now Moran tells The Kid that he must come up with $10,000 to make up for what he would have won. The Kid sets up a fake charity–after all, it is Christmas–and begins to raise the needed funds. This is the film that introduced Ray Evans and Jay Livingston's Christmas ballad, "Silver Bells."
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Ma and Pa Kettle 1949 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: The Further Adventures of Ma and Pa Kettle
Director: Charles Lamont
Cast: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall, Audrey Young, Esther Dale, Barry Kelley, Harry Antrim, Ida Moore, Emory Parnell
In this first entry of what would become a series about the Kettles and their 15 kids, the down-on-their-luck family sees a change in fortune when they win a new home after naming the new slogan for a tobacco company.
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Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki 1955  N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Lee Sholem
Cast: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Lori Nelson, Byron Palmer, Loring Smith, Lowell Gilmore, Mabel Albertson, Esther Dale, Ida Moore, Fay Roope
Ma and Pa Kettle (Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride) come to Hawaii to help out with problems at the family's pineapple cannery. Once there, Pa makes matters even worse in this offbeat comedy. Kilbride's last film as "Pa."
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Rock-A-Bye Baby 1958 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Tashlin
Cast: Jerry Lewis, Marilyn Maxwell, Connie Stevens, Salvatore Baccaloni, Reginald Gardiner, Hans Conried, Ida Moore, Isobel Elsom, James Gleason, George Sanders
When film star Carla Naples (Marilyn Maxwell) has triplets, she hires Clayton Poole (Jerry Lewis) to care for the babies and keep them out of the public eye. And the fun begins.
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She's a Soldier Too 1944 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Castle
Cast: Beulah Bondi, Lloyd Bridges, Nina Foch, Percy Kilbride, Shelley Winters, Ida Moore, Jess Barker, Jeanne Bates, Edward Earle, Marilyn Johnson
A woman taxi-driver (Beulah Bondi) listens to the story of a soldier (Lloyd Bridges) searching for his son and determines to help him in his quest.
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| 1. Backfire (1950)
2. Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)
3. The Country Girl (1954)
4. The Dark Mirror (1946)
5. Double Dynamite (1951)
6. The Egg and I (1947)
7. Harvey (1950)
8. It's a Joke, Son (1947)
9. The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
10. Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)
aka: The Further Adventures of Ma and Pa Kettle
11. Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1955)
12. Rock-A-Bye Baby (1958)
13. She's a Soldier Too (1944)
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