Bataan 1943  N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Bowman, Robert Walker, Desi Arnaz, Barry Nelson, Tom Dugan, Donald Curtis, Phillip Terry, Roque Espiritu, Kenneth Spencer, Alex Havier, Bud Geary
This is one of the great World War II films. It relates the saga of U.S. Army Sergeant Bill Dane (Robert Taylor) and his rear guard soldiers as they protect General Douglas MacArthur's army during the retreat down a peninsula on Bataan. They face certain death while delaying the advancing Japanese troops in pursuit of MacArthur but are prepared to sacrifice themselves for their country.
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Buck Privates 1941 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, The Andrews Sisters, Lee Bowman, Alan Curtis, Jane Frazee, Nat Pendleton, Samuel S. Hinds, Harry Strang, Shemp Howard
Slicker Smith (Bud Abbott) and Herbie Brown (Lou Costello) are con men who end up in the Army–by accident. The Andrews Sisters perform "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" and "I'll Be Seeing You in Apple Blossom Time."
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 Cover Girl 1944 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Charles Vidor
Cast: Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Lee Bowman, Phil Silvers, Jinx Falkenburg, Eve Arden, Otto Kruger, Anita Colby, Leslie Brooks, Thurston Hall
Chorus girl Rusty Parker (Rita Hayworth) wins a beauty contest that leads to an offer for a Broadway production. Now she must choose between fame and the man she loves: nightclub owner Danny (Gene Kelly). Hayworth's and Kelly's dancing make this film a delight. Jerome Kern-Ira Gershwin songs include "Long Ago and Far Away." As usual, Eve Arden's quick wit is a highlight.
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Design for Scandal 1941  N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold, Lee Bowman, Jean Rogers, Mary Beth Hughes, Guy Kibbee, Thurston Hall, Donald Meek, Barbara Jo Allen
Newsman Judson M. Blair (Edward Arnold) plots to set up and frame Judge Cornelia Porter (Rosalind Russell) in a scandal, but he falls in love with her in the process.
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House by the River 1950 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Louis Hayward, Jane Wyatt, Lee Bowman, Dorothy Patrick, Ann Shoemaker, Jody Gilbert, Sarah Padden, Peter Brocco, Howland Chamberlain, Margaret Seddon, Kathleen Freeman, Will Wright
After Stephen (Louis Hayward) accidentally murders a maid, his brother, John (Lee Bowman), helps him hide the body. But, when police find the body, John, not Stephen, becomes the prime suspect.
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Internes Can't Take Money 1937 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: You Can't Take Money
Director: Alfred Santell
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Lloyd Nolan, Stanley Ridges, Lee Bowman, Irving Bacon, Steve Pendleton, Pierre Watkin, Charles(2) Lane, Fay Holden
In this, the first in a series of Dr. Kildare stories, a young intern (Joel McCrea) helps a woman (Barbara Stanwyck) find and retrieve her missing daughter.
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Kid Glove Killer 1942 N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Cast: Van Heflin, Marsha Hunt, Lee Bowman, Samuel S. Hinds, John Litel, Cliff Clark, Eddie Quillan, Nella Walker, Ava Gardner, James Flavin
Police criminologist Gordon McKay (Van Heflin) uses scientific test-tube evidence to solve the mystery behind the mayor's murder.
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The Last Train from Madrid 1937 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James P. Hogan
Cast: Dorothy Lamour, Lew Ayres, Gilbert Roland, Anthony Quinn, Lee Bowman, Karen Morley, Robert Cummings, Lionel Atwill, Alan Ladd, Olympe Bradna, Helen Mack, Lee Bowman
Set in the 1930s during the Spanish civil war, an assortment of characters board a train as their last-ditch-effort means for escaping the war-torn country.
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Love Affair 1939 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Leo McCarey
Cast: Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer, Maria Ouspenskaya, Lee Bowman, Astrid Allwyn, Scotty Beckett, Maurice Moscovitch, Tom Dugan, Frank McGlynn Sr., Joan Leslie
This movie has been remade two times as "An Affair to Remember" in 1958 and again as "Love Affair" (1994). It is the three-hankie story about lovers on an ocean voyage who plan to reunite later, BUT fate intervenes. Six Academy Award nominations were received including Best Picture, Actress, and Supporting Actress (Maria Ouspenskaya).
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My Dream Is Yours 1949 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Jack Carson, Doris Day, Lee Bowman, Adolphe Menjou, Eve Arden, S.Z. Sakall, Edgar Kennedy, Selena Royle, Franklin Pangborn, Sheldon Leonard
Doug Blake (Jack Carson) is a businessman who "discovers" singer Martha Gibson (Doris Day) and turns her into a star.
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Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman 1947 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Smash-Up
Director: Stuart Heisler
Cast: Susan Hayward, Lee Bowman, Marsha Hunt, Eddie Albert, Carl Esmond, Carleton Young, Charles D. Brown, Tom Chatterton, Robert Shayne, George Meeker
Susan Hayward was nominated for an Oscar as Best Actress in her role as nightclub singer Angie. While her husband's (Lee Bowman) career soars, Angie hits the skids as she turns to alcohol for comfort.
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Society Lawyer 1939 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Leo Carrillo, Virginia Bruce, Lee Bowman, Edward Brophy, Eduardo Ciannelli, Harry Strang, Frances Mercer, Clarence Kolb, Pierre Watkin, Ian Wolfe, Paul Guilfoyle
This is a remake of "Penthouse," Arthur Somers Roche's story about a lawyer's involvement with underworld characters.
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Sophie Lang Goes West 1937  N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Reisner
Cast: Gertrude Michael, Lee Bowman, Sandra Storme, Buster Crabbe, Barlowe Borland, Jed Prouty, C. Henry Gordon, Rafael Storm, Fred Miller, Guy Usher
There have been one too many in this series, and the writers didn't seem to figure out what they wanted Sophie to do next. So, Sophie goes off to the West Coast, still avoiding the law. There she helps finish a screenplay and then helps the writer find a valuable stolen necklace.
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Third Finger, Left Hand 1940 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Cast: Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Raymond Walburn, Lee Bowman, Bonita Granville, Donald Meek, Sidney Blackmer, Halliwell Hobbes, Felix Bressart, Ann Morriss
A young fashion designer, Margot Sherwood Merrick (Myrna Loy), comes up with the idea of wearing a wedding ring as a ruse to deter would-be suitors. While the plan works in the beginning, Jeff Thompson (Melvyn Douglas) pursues Margot in spite of her ring.
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Tonight and Every Night 1945 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Victor Saville
Cast: Rita Hayworth, Janet Blair, Lee Bowman, Marc Platt, Leslie Brooks, Florence Bates, Ernest Cossart, Philip Merivale, Patrick O'Moore, Shelley Winters
This wartime film is about London showgirls who valiantly provided entertainment during the days of the bombing of London by Nazis. Check out Shelley Winters in the chorus.
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Up in Mabel's Room 1944 N/R, 76 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Allan Dwan
Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Marjorie Reynolds, Gail Patrick, Mischa Auer, Charlotte Greenwood, Lee Bowman, John Hubbard, Binnie Barnes, Janet Lambert, Fred Kohler Jr.
Based on a popular stage play, this farce tells of the tale of a young man (Dennis O'Keefe) who attempts to retrieve a "naughty" gift he had innocently given a young woman (Gail Patrick) without his wife (Marjorie Reynolds) or his friend (Lee Bowman) knowing of it. Quite funny, and remade with the same director and star the following year as "Getting Gertie's Garter."
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| 1. Bataan (1943)
2. Buck Privates (1941)
3. Cover Girl (1944)
4. Design for Scandal (1941)
5. Fame Is the Name of the Game (1966)
6. House by the River (1950)
7. Internes Can't Take Money (1937)
aka: You Can't Take Money
8. Kid Glove Killer (1942)
9. The Last Train from Madrid (1937)
10. Love Affair (1939)
11. My Dream Is Yours (1949)
12. Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947)
aka: Smash-Up
13. Society Lawyer (1939)
14. Sophie Lang Goes West (1937)
15. Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
16. Tonight and Every Night (1945)
17. Up in Mabel's Room (1944)
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