Arizona Mahoney 1936 N/R, 58 min. Genre: Western aka: Arizona Thunderbolt
Director: James P. Hogan Cast: Joe Cook, Robert Cummings, Buster Crabbe, June Martel, Marjorie Gateson, John Miljan, Dave Chasen, Irving Bacon, Billy Lee, Fred Kohler, James P. Burtis, Frank Mayo, Jim Mason, Jack Perrin
Arizona Mahoney (Joe Cook), who makes a living being shot out of a cannon in the circus, and his piano-playing partner Phillip Randall (Robert Cummings) decide to settle down in the West, and, with help from the circus elephant, they round up a gang of rustlers.
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Back Street 1941 N/R, 84 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Stevenson Cast: Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Richard Carlson, Frank McHugh, Tim Holt, Frank Jenks, Esther Dale, Samuel S. Hinds, Marjorie Gateson, Cecil Cunningham, Peggy Stewart, Nell O'Day, Kitty O'Neil, Nella Walker, Dale Winter
Charles Boyer and Margaret Sullavan are a believable team as they play star-crossed lovers Walter and Rae who, due to a mix-up, do not marry. Five years later, they meet again. Rae is engaged to marry Curt (Richard Carlson), and Walter has married another woman. Their love has lasted over the years, and Rae agrees to be Walter's mistress–an affair that will last for many years.
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Big Brown Eyes 1936 N/R, 75 min. Genre: Mystery
Director: Raoul Walsh Cast: Joan Bennett, Cary Grant, Walter Pidgeon, Isabel Jewell, Lloyd Nolan, Alan Baxter, Marjorie Gateson, Douglas Fowley, Henry Brandon, Francis McDonald
Danny Barr (Cary Grant) is aided by his girlfriend (Joan Bennett) in capturing a gang of jewel thieves.
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Bureau of Missing Persons 1933 N/R, 73 min. Genre: Mystery
Director: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Bette Davis, Lewis Stone, Pat O'Brien, Glenda Farrell, Allen Jenkins, Hugh Herbert, Ruth Donnelly, Alan Dinehart, George Chandler, Marjorie Gateson
Police officer Butch Saunders (Pat O'Brien) falls in love with fugitive Norma Phillips (Bette Davis) and helps prove her innocence in a murder charge.
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Chained 1934 N/R, 73 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Clarence Brown Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Otto Kruger, Stuart Erwin, Una O'Connor, Akim Tamiroff, Ward Bond, Marjorie Gateson, Lee Phelps, Paul Porcasi
A shipboard romance between Mike Bradley (Clark Gable) and Diane Lovering (Joan Crawford) is rekindled while she waits for her lover to get his divorce.
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Escape to Glory 1940 N/R, 74 min. Genre: Drama aka: Submarine Zone
Director: John Brahm Cast: Pat O'Brien, Constance Bennett, John Halliday, Melville Cooper, Alan Baxter, Edgar Buchanan, Marjorie Gateson, Francis Pierlot, Jessie Busley, Stanley Logan
A British ship is attacked by a German U-boat at the onset of World War II. The reactions of the frightened passengers–from a German doctor to a drunken Irishman–are chronicled in this good story.
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Goin' to Town 1935 N/R, 72 min. Genre: Comedy / Musical
Director: Alexander Hall Cast: Mae West, Paul Cavanagh, Gilbert Emery, Marjorie Gateson, Tito Coral, Ivan Lebedeff, Fred Kohler, Monroe Owsley, Grant Withers, Luis Alberni, Wade Boteler, Mona Rico, Paul Harvey, Lucio Villegas
Dance-hall queen Cleo Borden (Mae West) inherits an oil field from her deceased husband but lacks social graces to enter high society. She takes etiquette lessons and gets into a marriage in name only with Fletcher Colton (Monroe Owsley) to gain social position. But, British engineer Edward Carrington (Paul Cavanagh), who she had fallen for when he surveyed her property, returns to the scene and is now an earl. By story's end, Cleo has divorced Fletcher, married Edward, and lives happily ever after in London.
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International Lady 1941 N/R, 100 min. Genre: Adventure
Director: Tim Whelan Cast: George Brent, Ilona Massey, Basil Rathbone, Gene Lockhart, George Zucco, Clayton Moore, Francis Pierlot, Martin Kosleck, Charles D. Brown, Marjorie Gateson
U.S. espionage agent Tom Hanley (George Brent) falls in love with Carle Nillson (Ilona Massey). She is really a spy for Hitler and is transmitting information on enemy activity to German U-Boats in the Atlantic.
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Lady Killer 1933 N/R, 74 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Roy Del Ruth Cast: James Cagney, Mae Clarke, Leslie Fenton, Margaret Lindsay, Raymond Hatton, Henry O'Neill, Willard Robertson, Russell Hopton, William B. Davidson, Douglass Dumbrille, Robert Elliott, Marjorie Gateson, Douglas Cosgrove
This film brings back the stars (James Cagney and Mae Clark) of the smash hit "Public Enemy." In this go-around, an underworld crook (Cagney) goes from usher to hotshot hood to movie star.
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Meet the Stewarts 1942 N/R, 72 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Alfred E. Green Cast: William Holden, Frances Dee, Grant Mitchell, Anne Revere, Margaret Hamilton, Don Beddoe, Mary Gordon, Marjorie Gateson, Danny Mummert, Marguerite Chapman
Candace (Francis Dee) is a spoiled socialite who agrees to live on the budget of her working-class husband, Michael Stewart (William Holden).
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The Milky Way 1936 N/R, 83 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Leo McCarey Cast: Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou, Verree Teasdale, Helen Mack, George Barbier, Lionel Stander, William Gargan, Charles(1) Lane, Marjorie Gateson, Milburn Stone, Anthony Quinn
Harold Lloyd is very amusing in his role of the milkman who rises in the ranks to become a champion boxer–mostly due to his manager's wheeling and dealing. A young Anthony Quinn is seen fleetingly.
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No Time for Love 1943 N/R, 83 min. Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Mitchell Leisen Cast: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ilka Chase, Richard Haydn, Paul McGrath, June Havoc, Rhys Williams, Bill Goodwin, Marjorie Gateson, Morton Lowry, Frank Moran, Rod Cameron, George Dolenz, Rhys Williams, Ben Taggart
A famous photographer, Katherine Grant (Claudette Colbert), while photographing a tunnel being constructed under the Hudson River, takes pictures of sandhog Jim Ryan (Fred MacMurray) who is working on the tunnel project. A fight breaks out, and Jim wins. Katherine has taken pictures of the fight, and the pictures appear in a magazine. As a result, Jim is fired. Because she feels responsible, Katherine hires Jim as her assistant, which leads to romance despite great differences in their personalities.
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One More Tomorrow 1946 N/R, 88 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Peter Godfrey Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Alexis Smith, John Loder, Jane Wyman, Reginald Gardiner, Marjorie Gateson, Thurston Hall, Sig Arno
Based on Philip Barry's play, this is the story of a playboy (Dennis Morgan) and his ill-fated romance with a magazine editor (Ann Sheridan). This is a re-make of 1932's "The Animal Kingdom."
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Private Number 1936 N/R, 75 min. Genre: Drama
Director: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Robert Taylor, Loretta Young, Patsy Kelly, Basil Rathbone, Paul Harvey, Monroe Owsley, George Irving, John Miljan, Jane Darwell, Marjorie Gateson, Joe E. Lewis
Richard Winfield (Robert Taylor) falls in love with, and marries, his mother's household servant, Ellen (Loretta Young). Then, to protect the family's social status, they keep the marriage secret.
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Rings on Her Fingers 1942 N/R, 85 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Rouben Mamoulian Cast: Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Laird Cregar, Shepperd Strudwick, Spring Byington, Frank Orth, Henry Stephenson, Marjorie Gateson, George Lessey, Iris Adrian
John Wheeler (Henry Fonda) is conned by a trio of swindlers. However, one of the culprits, Susan Miller (Gene Tierney), falls in love with John and helps him regain his lost money.
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The Sky's the Limit 1943 N/R, 89 min. Genre: Musical
Director: Edward H. Griffith Cast: Fred Astaire, Joan Leslie, Robert Benchley, Robert Ryan, Elizabeth Patterson, Marjorie Gateson, Richard Davies, Clarence Kolb, Eric Blore, Freddie Slack
Flying ace Fred (Fred Astaire) takes leave while his group is on tour in support of the war effort. In the guise of a drifter, he meets and falls for photographer Joan (Joan Leslie). Good Academy Award-nominated musical score, and Fred's new dancing partner isn't bad but not one of Fred's best.
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You'll Never Get Rich 1941 N/R, 88 min. Genre: Musical
Director: Sidney Lanfield Cast: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley, John Hubbard, Osa Massen, Frieda Inescort, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Donald MacBride, Marjorie Gateson, Cliff Nazarro
When musical comedy star Robert Curtis (Fred Astaire) is drafted into the Army, he immediately thinks that the Army will solve his problems by removing him from his romantic entanglements, but it doesn't take long before Curtis changes his mind.
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| 1. Arizona Mahoney (1936) aka: Arizona Thunderbolt
2. Back Street (1941)
3. Big Brown Eyes (1936)
4. Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)
5. Chained (1934)
6. Escape to Glory (1940) aka: Submarine Zone
7. Goin' to Town (1935)
8. International Lady (1941)
9. Lady Killer (1933)
10. Meet the Stewarts (1942)
11. The Milky Way (1936)
12. No Time for Love (1943)
13. One More Tomorrow (1946)
14. Private Number (1936)
15. Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
16. The Sky's the Limit (1943)
17. You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
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