 And the Angels Sing 1944  N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Dorothy Lamour, Fred MacMurray, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, Raymond Walburn, Eddie Foy Jr., Frank Albertson, Frank Faylen, Mimi Chandler, Mikhail Rasumny
Two sisters (Dorothy Lamour and Betty Hutton), members of a sister act, the Angels, pursue their director: object matrimony.
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Anna and the King of Siam 1946  N/R, 128 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: John Cromwell
Cast: Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb, Gale Sondergaard, Mikhail Rasumny, Dennis Hoey, Richard Lyon, William Edmunds, John Abbott, Tito Renaldo, Addison Richards, Ben Welden
British widow Anna (Irene Dunne) travels to Siam in 1862 to teach the royal children. While there, the King (Rex Harrison) and Anna develop a warm friendship through which she convinces the King to employ more humane treatment of his subjects. This film won Oscars for Best Cinematography and Art Direction and was the film debut for Harrison. The story was later remade as the musical "The King and I." Gale Sondergaard received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls 1943 N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Drama / Adventure / Romance
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Arturo de Cordova, Joseph Calleia, Katina Paxinou, Vladimir Sokoloff, Mikhail Rasumny, Fortunio Bonanova, Frank Puglia, Eric Feldary, Victor Varconi, Alexander Granach
Set in the Spanish Civil War, American Robert Jordan (Gary Cooper) helps a band of peasant guerillas blow up a bridge. While hiding in the hills, Jordan meets and falls in love with Maria (Ingrid Bergman) who has suffered at the hands of Franco's forces. Katina Paxinou won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress. The film also received eight nominations, including Best Picture, Actor (Cooper), Actress (Bergman), and Supporting Actor (Akim Tamiroff).
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Heartbeat 1946  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Sam Wood
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Adolphe Menjou, Basil Rathbone, Melville Cooper, Mikhail Rasumny, Eduardo Ciannelli, Mona Maris, Henry Stephenson, Ivan Lebedeff, Bess Flowers, Torben Meyer
After escaping from a reform school, Ariette (Ginger Rogers) returns to the life of a pickpocket in Paris. Now, she plies her trade on a young diplomat (Jean-Pierre Aumont) and ends up falling in love with him.
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Hot Blood 1956 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Musical / Drama / Romance
Director: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Jane Russell, Cornel Wilde, Luther Adler, Joseph Calleia, Mikhail Rasumny, Nina Koshetz, Helen Westcott, James H. Russell, Wally Russell, Nick Dennis, Richard Deacon, Robert Foulk, John Raven, Peter Brocco, Ross Bagdasarian
In this story, set in a gypsy community in Los Angeles, aspiring dancer Stephen Torino (Cornel Wilde) enters into an arranged marriage with Annie (Jane Russell). At first, Stephen shows little interest in Annie, but when he gets to know her, he changes his attitude, and romance is on his mind.
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The Kissing Bandit 1948  N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Western
Director: Laszlo Benedek
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, J. Carrol Naish, Mildred Natwick, Mikhail Rasumny, Billy Gilbert, Sono Osato, Clinton Sundberg, Edna Skinner, Vincente Gomez, Carleton G. Young, Byron Foulger, Ricardo Montalban, Ann Miller, Cyd Charisse
When Ricardo (Frank Sinatra) returns to California to take over his deceased father's hotel business, he learns that his father was a "kissing bandit." Deciding to carry on in his father's tradition, Ricardo kisses the lady victims after robbing them. When he meets Teresa (Kathryn Grayson), who just happens to be the daughter of a governor with tax problems, Ricardo's talents for kissing and the offer of money gained from his thievery pay off, and Teresa is smitten.
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Our Hearts Were Growing Up 1946 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: William D. Russell
Cast: Gail Russell, Diana Lynn, Brian Donlevy, Billy De Wolfe, James Brown, Bill Edwards, William Demarest, Mikhail Rasumny, Mary Hatcher, Sara Haden
This sequel to "Our Hearts Were Young And Gay" doesn't match that one, but is still OK entertainment as we follow Cornelia Otis Skinner (Gail Russell) to college in the 1920s where she and her friend (Diana Lynn) get involved with bootleggers.
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Pirates of Capri 1949 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action
aka: Captain Sirocco
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: Louis Hayward, Binnie Barnes, Alan Curtis, Mariella Lotti, Massimo Serato, Mikhail Rasumny, Virginia Belmont, Franca Marzi, William Tubbs, Alberto Califano, Maria Auritano, Michel Sorel, Eleonora Rossi Drago
By day, pirate Captain Sirocco (Louis Hayward) disguises himself as Count di Amalfi, which enables him to spy on the Naples court of Queen Carolina (Binnie Barnes). At night, Sirocco puts on a mask and leads the rebels of Capri in an effort to overthrow Queen Carolina and her evil police chief Commodore Van Diel (Alan Curtis). Good action scenes.
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Practically Yours 1944 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Gil Lamb, Robert Benchley, Rosemary DeCamp, Cecil Kellaway, Tom Powers, Jane Frazee, Donald MacBride, Mikhail Rasumny
War hero Lieutenant Daniel Bellamy (Fred MacMurray) is presumed dead but returns and learns he is engaged to Peggy Martin (Claudette Colbert) who has intercepted a love letter he wrote.
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Road to Morocco 1942 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Butler
Cast: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Dona Drake, Anthony Quinn, Vladimir Sokoloff, Monte Blue, Yvonne De Carlo, Mikhail Rasumny, George Givot
Con artists (Bing Crosby and Bob Hope) sojourn across the desert in Africa where they meet Princess Shalmar (Dorothy Lamour) and must contend with Sheik Mullay Kassim (Anthony Quinn).
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A Royal Scandal 1945 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Otto Preminger, Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, Anne Baxter, Charles Coburn, William Eythe, Vincent Price, Mischa Auer, Sig Ruman, Vladimir Sokoloff, Mikhail Rasumny, Grady Sutton, Eva Gabor, Egon Brecher, Donald Douglas, Michael Visaroff, Wilton Graff
Russia's Czarina, Catherine the Great (Tallulah Bankhead), is threatened with an overthrow, but her sexual appetite pays off as her lover, Alexi (William Eythe), comes to her aid and outfoxes the rebels.
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Saigon 1948 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Leslie Fenton
Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Douglas Dick, Wally Cassell, Luther Adler, Morris Carnovsky, Mikhail Rasumny, Luis Van Rooten, Philip Ahn, Eugene Borden
Three army buddies are tempted to go for illegally begot riches as they head for adventure in Saigon.
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The Stars Are Singing 1953 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Norman Taurog
Cast: Rosemary Clooney, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Lauritz Melchoir, Bob Williams, Fred Clark, Lloyd Corrigan, John Archer, Mikhail Rasumny, Don Wilson, Tom Morton
Katri Walenska (Anna Maria Alberghetti) illegally enters the country, and Terry Brennan (Rosemary Clooney) and her friends try to hide her from immigration authorities.
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The Stork Club 1945 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Hal Walker
Cast: Betty Hutton, Barry Fitzgerald, Don DeFore, Robert Benchley, Bill Goodwin, Iris Adrian, Mikhail Rasumny, Mary Young, Andy Russell, Pierre Watkin
Judy Peabody (Betty Hutton) is a hat check girl who saves the life of Jerry B. Bates (Barry Fitzgerald). He repays her anonymously by setting her up as a wealthy woman. But problems develop when her boyfriend returns from the war and is suspicious of her newfound prosperity.
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 This Gun for Hire 1942 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Tuttle
Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Tully Marshall, Marc Lawrence, Pamela Blake, Mikhail Rasumny, Harry Shannon, Frank Ferguson
Based on Graham Greene's novel, "A Gun aor Sale," this is a stark drama that launched Alan Ladd's career. He plays a paid gunman who sets out to avenge a double-cross.
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Tonight We Sing 1953 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: David Wayne, Ezio Pinza, Roberta Peters, Tamara Toumanova, Anne Bancroft, Isaac Stern, Mikhail Rasumny, Steven Geray, Walter Woolf King, Oscar Karlweis
Arias from "La Traviata" and "Madam Butterfly" are featured in this biography of Russian-born impresario Sol Hurok (David Wayne).
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Wake Island 1942 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Action / Drama
Director: John Farrow
Cast: Brian Donlevy, Macdonald Carey, Robert Preston, William Bendix, Albert Dekker, Walter Abel, Mikhail Rasumny, Rod Cameron, Bill Goodwin, Damian O'Flynn, Barbara Britton, Frank Albertson, Phillip Terry, Don Castle, Dane Clark
Set shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Marines are sent to small Wake Island to hold off the Japanese advances. The action is nearly continuous as the Marines thwart one attack after another. This and other similar films were important in rallying the country behind the war effort and showing there is even victory in defeat. Academy Award nominations included Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actor (William Bendix).
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| 1. And the Angels Sing (1944)
2. Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
3. Blue Skies (1946)
4. Comrade X (1940)
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
6. Heartbeat (1946)
7. Hot Blood (1956)
8. The Kissing Bandit (1948)
9. Our Hearts Were Growing Up (1946)
10. Pirates of Capri (1949)
aka: Captain Sirocco
11. Pirates of Monterey (1947)
12. Practically Yours (1944)
13. Road to Morocco (1942)
14. A Royal Scandal (1945)
15. Saigon (1948)
16. The Stars Are Singing (1953)
17. The Stork Club (1945)
18. This Gun for Hire (1942)
19. Tonight We Sing (1953)
20. Wake Island (1942)
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