Eight on the Lam 1967  N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Jonathan Winters, Shirley Eaton, Jill St. John, Stacey Maxwell, Kevin Brody, Debi Storm, Peter Leeds
Even the zany talent of Jonathan Winters could not save this film about the father of seven, Henry Dimsdale (Bob Hope), and his problems when he is charged with embezzlement and fights to save his good name.
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The Facts of Life 1960  N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Melvin Frank
Cast: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Ruth Hussey, Don DeFore, Louis Nye, Philip Ober, Peter Leeds, Robert F. Simon, Louise Beavers, William Lanteau, Marianne Stewart, Mike Mazurki
Larry (Bob Hope) and Kitty (Lucille Ball) are vacationing as "Mr. George Washington" and "Mrs. Martha Washington" while embarking on an extra-marital fling. Although the affair is never consummated, at first, their romance is great. But, by story's end, they learn that there are problems with having affairs in middle age and realize that true happiness lies back in their original marriages.
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Harlow 1965 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Gordon Douglas
Cast: Carroll Baker, Martin Balsam, Red Buttons, Mike Connors, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford, Raf Vallone, Leslie Nielsen, Mary Murphy, Peter Leeds
Movie star Jean Harlow's life is recreated in this screen version with Carroll Baker in the title role. It came out at the same time as a competing biography of Harlow starring Carol Lynley. This one is a little better, though both take many liberties with the true account of her life.
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Interrupted Melody 1955  N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Cast: Glenn Ford, Eleanor Parker, Roger Moore, Cecil Kellaway, Peter Leeds, Evelyn Ellis, Walter Baldwin, Ann Codee, Stephen Bekassy, Doris Lloyd
This is the biography of Australian opera star Marjorie Lawrence (Eleanor Parker) who tried to re-establish her career after a bout with polio. The film won an Oscar for Writing and Eleanor Parker received a nomination for Best Actress.
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It's Always Fair Weather 1955 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Cast: Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Dolores Gray, Michael Kidd, David Burns, Jay C. Flippen, Hal March, Paul Maxey, Peter Leeds
Three veterans meet for a 10th-year reunion and find their lives have not gone the way they planned. The situation takes a turn for the better when a television show provides the chance to work out difficulties–but not without creating more problems!
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I'll Cry Tomorrow 1955 N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Daniel Mann
Cast: Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert, Jo Van Fleet, Don Taylor, Ray Danton, Margo, Virginia Gregg, Don "Red" Barry, Peter Leeds
This film is based on Lillian Roth's autobiography about her triumph over alcoholism. Susan Hayward portrays the star as she sinks further into her abyss with the bottle and in and out of six marriages. Hayward received an Oscar nomination.
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The Last Time I Saw Paris 1954 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed, Eva Gabor, Kurt Kasznar, Roger Moore, George Dolenz, Celia Lovsky, Peter Leeds, Sandy Descher, John Doucette, Odette Myrtil, Ann Codee, Jean Del Val
Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein, II wrote the title song for this film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Babylon Revisited." Successful writer Charles (Van Johnson) returns to Paris and remembers the last time he was there. Through flashbacks, the story takes place in post-World-War-II Paris where struggling writer Charles meets and falls in love with American ex-patriot Helen Ellswirth (Elizabeth Taylor). They marry, and Charles loves Helen's free-spirited lifestyle. After Charles strikes it rich and lives off the revenue from a Texas oil well, he loses his desire to write, and his drinking leads to devastating results in his personal life.
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Love Me or Leave Me 1955 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Charles Vidor
Cast: Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith, Tom Tully, Richard Gaines, Harry Bellaver, Peter Leeds, Audrey Young, Veda Ann Borg
The 1930s singer, Ruth Etting (Doris Day), is coerced into a disastrous marriage to mobster Marly "The Gimp" Snyder (James Cagney). Finally, she divorces him to marry her true love, Johnny Alderman (Cameron Mitchell), who must endure Snyder's wrath (in the form of a bullet) before finding happiness with Ruth. Great songs by Doris, and the film won an Academy Award for Best Writing and was nominated for five others, including Best Actor.
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Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm 1951  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward Sedgwick
Cast: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall, Ray Collins, Barbara Brown, Emory Parnell, Peter Leeds, Teddy Hart, Oliver Blake
While settling into their newly won city home, Ma and Pa Kettle (Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride) hear the rumor that uranium is under their old farm. Swindlers also hear the news, and the competition is on for rights to the precious metal.
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The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat 1974 R, 76 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert(2) Taylor
Cast: Skip Hinnant, Reva Rose, Bob Holt, Robert Ridgely, Fred Smoot, Pat Harrington Jr., Dick Whittington, Peter Leeds, Louisa Moritz, Stanley Adams
This second go-around of the original X-rated "Fritz the Cat" is not bad, with some funny moments as Fritz is on welfare, has a nagging wife, and looks for escape through dreaming of what his other eight lives might be like. Still clearly for adults only.
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| 1. Eight on the Lam (1967)
2. The Facts of Life (1960)
3. Harlow (1965)
4. Interrupted Melody (1955)
5. It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
6. I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
7. The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
8. Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
9. Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951)
10. The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974)
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