Gold Diggers of 1937 1936  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Victor Moore, Glenda Farrell, Lee Dixon, Osgood Perkins, Charles D. Brown, Joseph Crehan, William B. Davidson, Olin Howland, Rosalind Marquis, Irene Ware, Charles Halton, Paul Irving, Harry C. Bradley
This is the third–and final–"Gold Diggers" film, and Busby Berkeley, though not in the director's chair for this one, still handled the choreography. This time around, unemployed chorus girls Genevieve Larkin (Glenda Farrell) and Norma Perry (Joan Blondell) are in on a plot to buy insurance from Rosmer Peak (Dick Powell) to insure J.J. Horbart (Victor Moore) in order to make money when he dies. Meanwhile, Horbart's partners lost his money in the stock market, and he has no money to finance his next Broadway show. Now, Genevieve falls in love with Horbart who suffers a breakdown when he learns that he is broke. The only way to restore Horbart's health is to put on the show without financial backing. And the show goes on.
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Louisiana Purchase 1941 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Irving Cummings
Cast: Bob Hope, Vera Zorina, Victor Moore, Irene Bordoni, Dona Drake, Max "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, Frank Albertson, Raymond Walburn, Donald MacBride, Andrew Tombes
Both Irving Berlin's music and Senator Jim Taylor's (Bob Hope) outrageous filibuster in which he reads "Gone with the Wind" contribute to making this film an enjoyable escape from reality.
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On Our Merry Way 1948  N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
aka: A Miracle Can Happen
Director: Leslie Fenton, King Vidor, George Stevens, John Huston
Cast: Burgess Meredith, Paulette Goddard, Fred MacMurray, Hugh Herbert, James Stewart, Dorothy Lamour, Victor Moore, Eilene Janssen, Henry Fonda, William Demarest, Harry James, Charles D. Brown, Henry Hull, Eduardo Ciannelli, John Qualen
This film is a series of episodes tied together by the shell of a story about a newspaper reporter (Burgess Meredith) and his new wife (Paulette Goddard–his actual wife at the time). He asks a number of people how a child has changed their lives and gets a variety of answers.
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 The Seven Year Itch 1955  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Billy Wilder
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes, Butch Bernard, Sonny Tufts, Robert Strauss, Oskar Homolka, Marguerite Chapman, Victor Moore, Donald MacBride
After seven years of marriage, Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) and his wife (Evelyn Keyes) say a short goodbye as she leaves to spend the summer in the coolness of Maine, and he resolves to spend a boring summer in the city. Boredom is thrown to the wind when Richard meets a neighbor (Marilyn Monroe). Tom Ewell: "What happened at the office? Well, I shot Mr. Brady in the head, made violent love to Miss Morris, and set fire to 300,000 copies of 'Little Women'."
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Star Spangled Rhythm 1942 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Victor Moore, Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken, Paulette Goddard, Bing Crosby, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward, Dick Powell, Bob Hope, Anne Revere
A Paramount Studios doorman (Victor Moore) tells his sailor son that he is a producer, and now he must provide proof. The solution is a variety show with top stars from Paramount. "That Old Black Magic" was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song. Many guest stars.
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 Swing Time 1936  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Helen Broderick, Eric Blore, Betty Furness, Pierre Watkin, Georges Metaxa, Gerald Hamer, Edgar Dearing, Ralph Byrd, Fern Emmett, Frank Mills, Landers Stevens, Bess Flowers
A gambler, John "Lucky" Garnett (Fred Astaire), arrives late and misses his wedding to Margaret (Betty Furness). Now he must prove that he is worthy of marrying her in the future. He goes to New York where he has an on-again, off-again romance with dance instructor Penelope "Penny" Carroll (Ginger Rogers). By story's end, Penny escapes her own wedding to Ricky (Georges Metaxa), and "Lucky" and Penny are reunited. Jerome Kern wrote the score, which includes "The Way You Look Tonight" and "Never Gonna Dance." The first of these won the Oscar for Best Song. One of the pair's best.
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We're Not Married 1952 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Edmund Goulding
Cast: Ginger Rogers, Victor Moore, Fred Allen, Marilyn Monroe, David Wayne, Eve Arden, Paul Douglas, Eddie Bracken, Mitzi Gaynor, Louis Calhern
A number of couples are happily married–until they learn that their marriage ceremonies were not legal.
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| 1. Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
2. The Heat's On (1943)
aka: Tropicana
3. Louisiana Purchase (1941)
4. On Our Merry Way (1948)
aka: A Miracle Can Happen
5. Riding High (1943)
6. The Seven Year Itch (1955)
7. Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
8. Swing Time (1936)
9. We're Not Married (1952)
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