The Admiral Was a Lady 1950  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Albert S. Rogell
Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Wanda Hendrix, Rudy Vallee, Johnny Sands, Steve Brodie, Richard Erdman, Hillary Brooke, Richard Lane, Garry Owen, Fred Essler, Lurene Tuttle, Warren Douglas
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.
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Adventure in Baltimore 1949 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Richard Wallace
Cast: Robert Young, Shirley Temple, John Agar, Albert Sharpe, Josephine Hutchinson, John Miljan, Charles Kemper, Johnny Sands, Norma Varden, Charles Smith
Dinah Sheldon (Shirley Temple) is the daughter of a minister (Robert Young) who is a liberated early 1900s' young woman. Dinah expresses her freedom by painting a picture of a man in a loincloth; this, naturally, upsets the community and church members as well.
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The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer 1947  N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Irving Reis
Cast: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee, Ray Collins, Harry Davenport, Irving Bacon, Don Beddoe, Johnny Sands, Veda Ann Borg, Lillian Randolph, Dan Tobin, Ransom M. Sherman, William Bakewell, Ian Bernard
Teenager Sharon (Shirley Temple) is so infatuated with 40-year-old playboy artist Dick Nugent (Cary Grant) that she sneaks into his apartment one night hoping to model for him. When this is discovered by Sharon's older sister, Judge Margaret Turner (Myrna Loy), she threatens Dick with jail if he does not agree to date Sharon for one week to help Sharon get over her infatuation with him. Dick agrees to take Sharon out, but as the week progresses, it is he and Margaret who discover mutual interests in each other.
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The Basketball Fix 1951 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Felix E. Feist
Cast: John Ireland, Marshall Thompson, Vanessa Brown, William Bishop, Hazel Brooks, Johnny Sands, Bobby Hyatt, Walter Sande, Ted Pierson, Johnny Phillips, Lester Sharpe, Donald Kerr
After high-school basketball star Johnny Long (Marshall Thompson) becomes involved in point shaving, sportswriter Pete Ferreday (John Ireland) tries to intervene in an attempt to draw Johnny away from the mob's influence.
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Blaze of Noon 1947  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: John Farrow
Cast: Anne Baxter, William Holden, Sonny Tufts, William Bendix, Sterling Hayden, Howard Da Silva, Will Wright, Johnny Sands, Jean Wallace, Lloyd Corrigan
Early days of the United States Air Mail service provide the subject for this film featuring brothers Colin (William Holden), Roland (Sonny Tufts), Tad (Sterling Hayden), and Keith (Johnny Sands) who pioneered the new profession as daring pilots.
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Till the End of Time 1946 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Guy Madison, Robert Mitchum, Bill Williams, Tom Tully, Harry von Zell, William Gargan, Jean Porter, Ruth Nelson, Johnny Sands
When Cliff Harper (Guy Madison) returns home to face adjustment problems encountered by many servicemen following a war, he is helped by war-widow Pat Ruscom (Dorothy McGuire).
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| 1. The Admiral Was a Lady (1950)
2. Adventure in Baltimore (1949)
3. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
4. The Basketball Fix (1951)
5. Blaze of Noon (1947)
6. Till the End of Time (1946)
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