 Auntie Mame 1958  N/R, 143 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Morton DaCosta
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Fred Clark, Roger Smith, Jan Handzlik, Patric Knowles, Peggy Cass, Joanna Barnes, Willard Waterman
Mame Dennis (Rosalind Russell) takes over the guardianship of her orphaned nephew, Patrick (Jan Handzlik as the boy/Roger Smith as the adult). It is love at first sight when Mame introduces Patrick to her madcap world of N.Y.C. sophistication in the Jazz Age. Academy Award nominations include Best Picture, Actress (Russell), and Supporting Actress (Peggy Cass).
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The Casino Murder Case 1935  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Edwin L. Marin
Cast: Paul Lukas, Alison Skipworth, Donald Cook, Rosalind Russell, Arthur Byron, Ted Healy, Eric Blore, Isabel Jewell, Louise Fazenda, Leslie Fenton, Leo G. Carroll, Purnell Pratt
Paul Lukas, accent and all, becomes the fourth Philo Vance. After people are poisoned, Philo is brought in to sort through the suspects in this stretch-in-credibility plot. Rosalind Russell was just beginning to blossom into stardom at the time of this film.
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China Seas 1935  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Rosalind Russell, C. Aubrey Smith, Robert Benchley, Akim Tamiroff, Hattie McDaniel, Dudley Digges
Chinese riverboat Captain Al Gaskell (Clark Gable) has his hands full with pirates as well as China Doll (Jean Harlow) and Sybil (Rosalind Russell).
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Craig's Wife 1936  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Dorothy Arzner
Cast: Rosalind Russell, John Boles, Billie Burke, Jane Darwell, Dorothy Wilson, Alma Kruger, Thomas Mitchell, Raymond Walburn, Robert Allen, Elisabeth Risdon
Rosalind Russell hit it big with this film based on George Kelly's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Harriet Craig alienates all around her, including her husband, as she is obsessed with her home and other material possessions. Remade in 1950 as "Harriet Craig," with Joan Crawford in the title role.
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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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Evelyn Prentice 1934 N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: William K. Howard
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Una Merkel, Rosalind Russell, Harvey Stephens, Isabel Jewell, Frank Conroy, Henry Wadsworth, Edward Brophy, Jessie Ralph
Successful lawyer John Prentice (William Powell) and his wife Evelyn (Myrna Loy) unwittingly become involved in blackmail and murder.
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Flight for Freedom 1943 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Lothar Mendes
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Herbert Marshall, Eduardo Ciannelli, Walter Kingsford, Hugh Beaumont, Tom Dugan, Matt McHugh, Mary Treen, Theodore von Eltz
A woman pilot, Tonie Carter (Rosalind Russell), is romanced by Randy Britton (Fred MacMurray) before she sets off on a flight to look for Japanese strongholds in the Pacific.
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Forsaking All Others 1934  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Robert Montgomery, Charles Butterworth, Billie Burke, Frances Drake, Rosalind Russell, Arthur Treacher
Although Mary (Joan Crawford) and Dill (Robert Montgomery) are getting married, Jeff (Clark Gable) pines for his lost love, Mary. Events turn out happily ever after when Dill marries another woman, and Jeff and Mary discover their true love.
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Four's a Crowd 1938 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Rosalind Russell, Patric Knowles, Hugh Herbert, Walter Connolly, Melville Cooper, Franklin Pangborn, Herman Bing, Margaret Hamilton
A romantic triangle involving Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Rosalind Russell provide good entertainment; the participants can't seem to make up their minds as to who loves whom.
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The Girl Rush 1955 N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Robert Pirosh
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Fernando Lamas, Eddie Albert, Gloria DeHaven, Marion Lorne, James Gleason, Douglas Fowley, Jesse White, Larry Gates, George Chandler
Kim Halliday (Rosalind Russell) is a proper museum curator who inherits a Las Vegas casino and–with her Aunt Clara (Marion Lorne) in tow–heads West to run her new business venture.
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 Gypsy 1962 N/R, 149 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Drama
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Paul Wallace, Betty Bruce, Parley Baer, Harry Shannon, Morgan Brittany, Ann Jillian, Jack Benny, Diane Pace, Faith Dane, Roxanne Arlen, Ben Lessy, George Petrie
This version of the Broadway musical production, based on the life of Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick, stars Natalie Wood in the title role. Gypsy's mother, Mama Rose (Rosalind Russell), always wanted fame but never achieved it. So, she is determined to make vaudeville stars of her daughters June (Ann Jillian) and Louise. June bails out leaving an unwilling Louise to do Mama Rose's bidding. Vaudeville is on the wane, but Louise does get a booking in a burlesque house where she finds stardom as stripper "Gypsy Rose Lee." Songs include "Everything's Coming Up Roses," "Let Me Entertain You," and "All I Need Is a Girl." The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Music, Cinematography, and Costume Design.
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 His Girl Friday 1940   N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, Porter Hall, Cliff Edwards, Clarence Kolb, Roscoe Karns, Regis Toomey, Ernest Truex, Frank Jenks, Abner Biberman, Frank Orth, John Qualen
Newspaper editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) pulls out all stops to prevent the marriage of his star reporter–and ex-wife–Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) to insurance agent Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy). Walter convinces Hildy to cover one last story about the execution of anarchist Earl Williams (John Qualen). When Williams escapes, with help from Walter and Hildy he hides in the prison press room. Hildy is set to write her big story, while Walter uses their time together to woo her back. A Grant classic, along with great cast and script. 1 User Review
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| | Verbal Comedy Doesn't Get Better Than This | 1fatts 07/23/2007 | Menjou and O'Brian did it in '31. Mathau and Lemmon in '74. Robert Ryan and George Grizzard did it on TV in 1970. And somebody even did it once somewhere as a musical. But this is the one. This one: 1940 with Cary Grant and Roz Russell.
A fast-paced play by McArthur and Hecht called "The Front Page" got kicked up several notches when someone decided to turn Hildy Johnson, the bitter, frustrated reporter looking for an escape from the newspaper game into a normal life, into a woman, ex-wife of fast-talking, vicious-but-lovable editor Walter Burns. Cary Grant as burns was never faster or funnier, but his pairing with Roz Russell as Hildy is nothing short of magic. The dialogue zings along, and every second line is a zinger.
But there is more to this than the very real verbal jousting. There is a glimpse into the world of newspapers which is illuminating and more than a little frightening. Anything for the story; it is never about fact, but about the lead, the scoop. Russell's scene with John Qualen's Earl Williams is sharp and tough and cold. The scenes with the veterans in the jailhouse newsroom captures an earlier time and speech pattern, but, one suspects, it has more to say about what media news is really about than All the President's Men could every have hoped to show.
There is an edge to the script that raises it about great comedy into something more important than that.
One of the best things Howard Hawks ever did. Not to be missed. |
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A Majority of One 1961 N/R, 156 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Alec Guinness, Ray Danton, Madlyn Rhue, Mae Questel, Alan Mowbray, Frank Wilcox, Gary Vinson, Sharon Hugueny, Dale Ishimoto
Different backgrounds of Jewish Mrs. Jacoby (Rosalind Russell) and Japanese Koichi Asano (Alec Guinness) come together and the result is a humorous romance.
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Man-Proof 1938 N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Myrna Loy, Franchot Tone, Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon, Nana Bryant, Rita Johnson, Ruth Hussey, Leonard Penn, John Miljan, William Stack
Who loves whom? It is hard to tell with this married couple (Walter Pidgeon and Rosalind Russell) with others (Myrna Loy and Franchot Tone) waiting in the wings.
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Mourning Becomes Electra 1947 N/R, 173 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Dudley Nichols
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave, Raymond Massey, Katina Paxinou, Leo Genn, Kirk Douglas, Nancy Coleman, Henry Hull, Thurston Hall, Sara Allgood
This update of Sophocles' Greek tragedy, "Oresteia," was written by Eugene O'Neill. Updated to a Civil War era saga, it is the story of family relationships that result in killings and suicide. Both stars, Rosalind Russell and Michael Redgrave, were nominated for Oscars.
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My Sister Eileen 1942 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alexander Hall
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Janet Blair, George Tobias, Allyn Joslyn, Elizabeth Patterson, Grant Mitchell, Richard Quine, June Havoc, Donald MacBride, Gordon Jones, Frank Sully, Clyde Fillmore, Jeff Donnell, Ann Doran
This is the movie version of the 1940 Broadway hit about two sisters, Ruth (Rosalind Russell) and Eileen (Janet Blair), from Ohio who move into a basement-studio apartment in Greenwich Village where they meet and befriend their nutty neighbors. Ruth yearns to be a writer, while Eileen is determined to find success on the stage. Ruth finds success in her field when she starts writing about her sister Eileen, and she finds love with magazine editor Robert Barker (Brian Aherne) who has taken an interest in helping both sisters succeed with their plans. Russell received an Oscar nomination for her performance. A musical version was made in 1955, which followed a Broadway musical remake.
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Never Wave at a WAC 1952 N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: The Private Wore Skirts
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Paul Douglas, Marie Wilson, William Ching, Arleen Whelan, Leif Erickson, Charles Dingle, Lurene Tuttle, Hillary Brooke, Regis Toomey, Frieda Inescort, Louise Beavers
Socialite Jo McBain (Rosalind Russell) joins the WACs and encounters more than a few problems dealing with life in the Army.
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Night Must Fall 1937 N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty, Alan Marshal, Winifred Harris, Kathleen Harrison, Matthew Boulton, E.E. Clive, Eily Malyon, Beryl Mercer
Robert Montgomery and Dame May Whitty received Academy Award nominations for their roles in this drama about a psychotic killer, Danny (Robert Montgomery), masquerading as a charming young man. He cons his way into the Bransom home as a live-in companion for Mrs. Bransom (Dame May Whitty), but her niece, Olivia (Rosalind Russell), becomes suspicious of Danny's extracurricular activities.
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No Time for Comedy 1940 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Guy with a Grin
Director: William Keighley
Cast: James Stewart, Rosalind Russell, Charles Ruggles, Genevieve Tobin, Louise Beavers, Frank Faylen, Allyn Joslyn, Clarence Kolb, Robert Greig, J.M. Kerrigan
Gaylord and Linda Easterbrook (James Stewart and Rosalind Russell) are a playwright and actress who spar with each other while his play is being readied as a Broadway production.
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Picnic 1955 N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Joshua Logan
Cast: William Holden, Kim Novak, Susan Strasberg, Arthur O'Connell, Cliff Robertson, Rosalind Russell, Betty Field, Verna Felton, Nick Adams, Reta Shaw, Raymond Bailey, Elizabeth Wilson, Phyllis Newman, Henry Pagueo, Don C. Harvey
When drifter Hal Carter (William Holden) wanders into a small Kansas town, his presence greatly affects the citizens as he falls in love with his old friend Alan Benson's (Cliff Robertson) fiancee Madge Owens (Kim Novak). Meanwhile, as he explores the town, Madge's young sister Millie (Susan Strasberg) and spinster schoolteacher Rosemary (Rosalind Russell) fall for him. Matters rise to a head at a picnic, and, after a fight with Alan, Hal hops a freight train to escape the law. But, by story's end, Madge is riding a bus in an effort to find her true love Hal. The film received Oscars for Art Direction/Set Decoration and Film Editing and was nominated for Best Picture, and Director. Arthur O'Connell received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Howard Bevans, the rejected, reliable boyfriend of Rosemary.
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Reckless 1935 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone, May Robson, Ted Healy, Nat Pendleton, Rosalind Russell, Mickey Rooney, Henry Stephenson, Leon Ames
This musical extravaganza features Jean Harlow as a Broadway singer who finds that gaining acceptance in her playboy husband's (Franchot Tone) home is not an easy thing.
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Rosie! 1967  N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Lowell Rich
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Sandra Dee, Brian Aherne, Audrey Meadows, James Farentino, Vanessa Brown, Leslie Nielsen, Margaret Hamilton, Reginald Owen, Juanita Moore
Based on a play by Ruth Gordon, this reworked "King Lear" story changes gender but focuses on children's greed as it relates the experiences of a grandmother (Rosalind Russell) whose children try to get their hands on their inheritance BEFORE she dies. 4 User Reviews
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| | Anonymous 04/08/2009 | | This was a wonderful movie with a great cast. I saw it only once but loved it and have always wanted to see it again. I, too, wish it would come out on DVD. |
| | classic movie buff 01/03/2008 | | Excellent movie. This is definitely one movie that should be on DVD, available for all to purchase. |
| | scrapper 12/27/2007 | This is a great Rosalind Russell movie with Sandra Dee as her grandaughter and
Leslie Nielsen as her sceming son in law. I would love to purchase this movie |
| | 02/13/2007 | | Would very much like to purchase this movie. |
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Roughly Speaking 1945 N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Jack Carson, Donald Woods, Ann Doran, Alan Hale, Ray Collins, Craig Stevens, Jean Sullivan, Ann E. Todd, Kathleen Lockhart
This film spans 40 years in the life of Louise Randall Pierson (Rosalind Russell). Through trials and tribulations in good times and bad, Pierson always retains her spirit. 1 User Review
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| | tulliomike 08/20/2007 | | ourtstanding movie kept my attention and really made me feel good about american family. i like optimism and this film sets a new standard for guts, and patience and love. |
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Take a Letter, Darling 1942 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Constance Moore, Macdonald Carey, Robert Benchley, Dooley Wilson, Cecil Kellaway, Charles Arnt, Kathleen Howard, Margaret Seddon
Tom (Fred MacMurray) is hired by Mac (Rosalind Russell), a high-powered business executive, to act as her secretary and help deal with clients' female relatives.
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They Met in Bombay 1941 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Clarence Brown
Cast: Clark Gable, Rosalind Russell, Peter Lorre, Jessie Ralph, Reginald Owen, Eduardo Ciannelli, Alan Ladd, Matthew Boulton, Jay Novello, Luis Alberni
Two jewel thieves join forces and romance blooms in this comedy given impetus by Peter Lorre as a greedy ship captain.
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This Thing Called Love 1941 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Alexander Hall
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Melvyn Douglas, Binnie Barnes, Allyn Joslyn, Gloria Dickson, Lee J. Cobb, Gloria Holden, Don Beddoe, Sig Arno, Paul McGrath
When this film was released in 1941, the Legion of Decency banned it from American theaters because of its plot: newlyweds agree to remain celibate for the first three months of marriage. BUT, despite the agreement, the bridegroom (Melvin Douglas) tries many tricks to bed the increasingly suspicious bride (Rosalind Russell).
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Trouble for Two 1936 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Mystery
aka: The Suicide Club
Director: J. Walter Ruben
Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen, Louis Hayward, E.E. Clive, Walter Kingsford, Ivan F. Simpson, Robert Greig, Pedro de Cordoba
Taken from Robert Louis Stevenson's "Suicide Club" stories, this lighthearted mystery promises much, but falls short in the end. Prince Florizel (Robert Montgomery) is heir to the throne of Karovia. He joins a mysterious Suicide Club and must survive a series of lethal traps to gain the crown and regain his princess (Rosalind Russell).
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The Trouble with Angels 1966 N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ida Lupino
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Binnie Barnes, Camilla Sparv, Mary Wickes, Marge Redmond, Dolores Sutton, June Harding, Hayley Mills, Gypsy Rose Lee, Jim Hutton
Two students–Mary Clancy (Hayley Mills) and Rachel Devery (June Harding)–at St. Francis Academy for Girls have their own ideas of how to enjoy boarding school. This leads to more than one admonishment from the Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell). Followed by "Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows."
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The Velvet Touch 1948 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: John Gage
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor, Sydney Greenstreet, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford, Lex Barker, Irving Bacon, Dan Tobin
Actress Valerie Stanton (Rosalind Russell) commits the perfect crime (or did she?) as Captain Danbury (Sydney Greenstreet) tries to uncover the truth.
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Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows 1968 G, 95 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: James Neilson
Cast: Rosalind Russell, Stella Stevens, Binnie Barnes, Mary Wickes, Susan Saint James, Milton Berle, Van Johnson, William Lundigan, Robert Taylor, Dolores Sutton
This sequel to "The Trouble With Angels" again features Rosalind Russell as the Mother Superior. This time she runs into problems at the convent when a young novice (Stella Stevens) cannot seem to adjust to policies.
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A Woman of Distinction 1950 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edward Buzzell
Cast: Ray Milland, Rosalind Russell, Edmund Gwenn, Janis Carter, Mary Jane Saunders, Francis Lederer, Jerome Courtland, Gale Gordon, Alex Gerry, Lucille Ball
College dean Susan Middlecott (Rosalind Russell) is embarrassed when newspapers write about a visiting professor and former boyfriend, Alec Stevenson (Ray Milland), and announce that he is her lover.
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 The Women 1939 N/R, 134 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, Mary Boland, Joan Fontaine, Lucile Watson, Ruth Hussey, Marjorie Main, Butterfly McQueen, Phyllis Povah, Virginia Weidler, Virginia Grey, Muriel Hutchison, Hedda Hopper
After Mary's (Norma Shearer) friend Sylvia (Rosalind Russell) arranges for her to get the information that Mary's husband is having an affair, Mary heads for Reno to obtain a divorce. When she returns home to New York, she learns that her husband has married his mistress Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford), and now Mary plots to win her husband back. This all-female-cast movie is a classic.
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| 1. Auntie Mame (1958)
2. The Casino Murder Case (1935)
3. China Seas (1935)
4. Craig's Wife (1936)
5. Design for Scandal (1941)
6. Evelyn Prentice (1934)
7. Flight for Freedom (1943)
8. Forsaking All Others (1934)
9. Four's a Crowd (1938)
10. The Girl Rush (1955)
11. Gypsy (1962)
12. His Girl Friday (1940)
13. A Majority of One (1961)
14. Man-Proof (1938)
15. Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
16. My Sister Eileen (1942)
17. Never Wave at a WAC (1952)
aka: The Private Wore Skirts
18. Night Must Fall (1937)
19. No Time for Comedy (1940)
aka: Guy with a Grin
20. Picnic (1955)
21. Reckless (1935)
22. Rosie! (1967)
23. Roughly Speaking (1945)
24. Take a Letter, Darling (1942)
25. They Met in Bombay (1941)
26. This Thing Called Love (1941)
27. Trouble for Two (1936)
aka: The Suicide Club
28. The Trouble with Angels (1966)
29. The Velvet Touch (1948)
30. Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968)
31. A Woman of Distinction (1950)
32. The Women (1939)
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