All That Heaven Allows 1955  N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Douglas Sirk
Cast: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey, Gloria Talbott, David Janssen, Gia Scala, Charles Drake, Hayden Rorke, William Reynolds, Jacqueline deWit, Leigh Snowden, Donald Curtis, Nestor Paiva
After her friend Sara (Agnes Moorehead) persuades New England widow Cary Scott (Jane Wyman) to reenter the social scene, Cary's life changes. Harvey (Conrad Nagel) proposes to her, but she turns him down. Cary meets a young gardener, Ron Kirby (Rock Hudson), and becomes involved in a love affair with him. Now, Ron asks Cary to marry him, but the idea of this May/December marriage does not get support from her family and friends who believe that Ron is no more than a fortune hunter. Will love survive the pressures?
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Charlie Chan in Black Magic 1944  N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Comedy
aka: Black Magic
Meeting at Midnight
Director: Phil Rosen
Cast: Sidney Toler, Frances Chan, Claudia Dell, Mantan Moreland, Jacqueline deWit, Edward Earle, Joseph Crehan, Helen Beverly, Geraldine Wall, Ralph Peters, Frank Jaquet, Harry Depp, Dick Gordon, Charles Jordan
Charlie Chan's (Sidney Toler) daughter Frances Chan (Frances Chan) attends a seance held by bogus fortunetellers William and Justine Bonner (Dick Gordon and Jacqueline deWit). During the seance, William is killed, and Frances becomes a suspect. The butler Birmingham (Mantan Moreland), who used to be Charlie's chauffeur, calls Charlie to investigate. Charlie arrives at the creepy mansion and, with help from Frances, solves the mystery.
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The Damned Don't Cry 1950 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran, Kent Smith, Morris Ankrum, Richard Egan, Eddie Marr, Hugh Sanders, Selena Royle, Jacqueline deWit
Tough broad Ethel Whitehead (Joan Crawford) leaves husband Roy (Richard Egan) and becomes involved with gangster Nick Prenta (Steve Cochran). When Nick is gunned down, Ethel returns to her husband's home in order to escape Nick's killer (David Brian).
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Fog Island 1945  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Terry O. Morse
Cast: George Zucco, Lionel Atwill, Jerome Cowan, John Whitney, Veda Ann Borg, Sharon Douglas, Ian Keith, Jacqueline deWit, George Lloyd
Leo (George Zucco) was framed for his wife's murder and is now out of jail. It is revenge time, so he invites former associates to a mansion on a foggy island to uncover the guilty person. Good atmosphere in this cheaply made, but watchable, film that has a fine B-movie cast with good interactions between Zucco and Atwill's characters.
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Lady on a Train 1945 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles David
Cast: Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, Edward Everett Horton, David Bruce, George Coulouris, Allen Jenkins, Dan Duryea, Jacqueline deWit, Patricia Morison, Elizabeth Patterson, Samuel S. Hinds, William Frawley
As her train pulls into Grand Central Station, Nikki (Deanna Durbin) glimpses a murder being committed in a nearby building. She reports the crime, but the police won't listen. So, Nikki investigates and gets involved with the dead man's off-beat family.
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Lay That Rifle Down 1955 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Lamont
Cast: Judy Canova, Robert Lowery, Jil Jarmyn, Jacqueline deWit, Richard Deacon, Robert Burton, James Bell, Leon Tyler, Pierre Watkin, William Fawcett, Marjorie Bennett, Edmund Cobb
Overworked Judy (Judy Canova) is also paid little for her tasks at her aunt's hotel. So, she decides to enroll in a charm school, which turns out to be a scam, and that leads to more troubles–and fun for the viewer.
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The Leopard Man 1943  N/R, 66 min.
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, James Bell, Margaret Landry, Abner Biberman, Ben Bard, Richard Martin, Ariel Heath, Fely Franquelli, Jacqueline deWit
In an effort to upstage the other acts, nightclub performer Kiki Walker (Jean Brooks) uses a leashed leopard in her own act. But when the leopard escapes, people are found dead, and the leopard is blamed. Kiki and her manager, Jerry Manning (Dennis O'Keefe), begin to question that the leopard is doing the killing and investigate other possibilities.
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Little Giant 1946 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: William A. Seiter
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Brenda Joyce, Jacqueline deWit, Elena Verdugo, Mary Gordon, Margaret Dumont, George Cleveland, George Chandler, Pierre Watkin
Bud Abbott takes on two roles in this story about a shy vacuum cleaner salesman (Lou Costello) who is trying to live up what his demanding bosses–John Morrison (Bud Abbott) and Tom Chandler (Bud Abbott)–expect of him.
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The Lone Wolf in Mexico 1947 N/R, 69 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: D. Ross Lederman
Cast: Gerald Mohr, Sheila Ryan, Jacqueline deWit, Eric Blore, Nestor Paiva, John Gallaudet, Peter Brocco, Bernard Nedell, Winifred Harris
The series is getting stale, especially with Mohr as the Lone Wolf. This is his third and last role as the ex-jewel thief sleuth and in this episode he is accused of robbery AND murder while helping the police bring diamond smugglers to justice in Mexico.
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Playgirl 1954 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Pevney
Cast: Shelley Winters, Barry Sullivan, Colleen Miller, Richard Long, Gregg Palmer, Kent Taylor, Philip Van Zandt, Jacqueline deWit, Paul Richards, Mara Corday
A young naive girl, Fran (Shelley Winters), moves to New York City and gets involved in the glamorous night life–and gangsters.
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Tea and Sympathy 1956 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson, Edward Andrews, Norma Crane, Dean Jones, Darryl Hickman, Jacqueline deWit, Tom Laughlin, Mary Alan Hokanson
This is the film version of the successful Broadway play in which a young student (John Kerr) discovers happiness through the sensitivity of his lover (Deborah Kerr) who happens to be his teacher's wife.
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Toy Tiger 1956 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jerry Hopper
Cast: Jeff Chandler, Laraine Day, Tim Hovey, Cecil Kellaway, Richard Haydn, David Janssen, Judson Pratt, Jacqueline deWit, Mary Field, Butch Bernard
This remake of "Mad About Music" changes the gender of its young star as Tim Hovey takes on the Deanna Durbin role of a boarding school student who needs love and attention from family.
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 Twice-Told Tales 1963 N/R, 119 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Sidney Salkow
Cast: Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Mari Blanchard, Brett Halsey, Beverly Garland, Richard Denning, Abraham Sofaer, Edith Evanson, Jacqueline deWit, Joyce Taylor
Three Nathaniel Hawthorne stories are included in this horror offering. In "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," Heidegger (Sebastian Cabot) tries to give the gift of youth to his elderly friends. In the second story, "Rappaccini's Daughter," a demented father (Vincent Price) inoculates his daughter with a poison so that she will never leave him. Finally, in "The House of Seven Gables," Gerald Pyncheon (Vincent Price) returns home to search for a vault hidden in the estate–despite the fact that the vault contains a curse that has caused the deaths of Pyncheon men over the last 100 years.
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| 1. All That Heaven Allows (1955)
2. Charlie Chan in Black Magic (1944)
aka: Black Magic
aka: Meeting at Midnight
3. The Damned Don't Cry (1950)
4. Fog Island (1945)
5. Lady on a Train (1945)
6. Lay That Rifle Down (1955)
7. The Leopard Man (1943)
8. Little Giant (1946)
9. The Lone Wolf in Mexico (1947)
10. Playgirl (1954)
11. Tea and Sympathy (1956)
12. Toy Tiger (1956)
13. Twice-Told Tales (1963)
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