 An American in Paris 1951  N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Musical / Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Gene Kelly, Oscar Levant, Leslie Caron, Nina Foch, Georges Guetary, Eugene Borden, Ann Codee, Dick Wessel, Paul Maxey, John Eldredge, Noel Neill, Madge Blake
Based on the music of George and Ira Gershwin, dance and music sequences contributed to the Academy Award for Best Picture. The story is about ex-GI Jerry (Gene Kelly) who stays in Paris after the war to study art and then falls in love with Lise (Leslie Caron). The film also won five other Oscars, and Director Vincente Minnelli received a nomination.
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The Bad and the Beautiful 1952  N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Gloria Grahame, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan, Walter Pidgeon, Elaine Stewart, Gilbert Roland, Leo G. Carroll, Vanessa Brown, Paul Stewart, Sammy White, Ivan Triesault, Francis X. Bushman, William Tannen
This story is told from the perspectives of actress Gloria Lorrison (Lana Turner), writer James Lee Bartlow (Dick Powell), and director Fred Amiel (Barry Sullivan) who go to a movie studio to listen to a pitch from producer Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) whose studio is troubled financially. Shields wants them to work on a new project, but all three have had bad experiences in the past with Shields that will make them think twice about signing with him. The film won five Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress (Gloria Grahame for her role as Rosemary Bartlow), and Kirk Douglas received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
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The Band Wagon 1953   N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Family / Comedy / Musical / Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Jack Buchanan, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray, James Mitchell, Robert Gist, Thurston Hall, Ava Gardner, Steve Forrest, Douglas Fowley, Jack Gargan, Julie Newmar, Emory Parnell, Harry Stanton
This musical is about aging, Hollywood dancer Tony Hunter (Fred Astaire) whose friends Lester and Lily Marton (Oscar Levant and Nanette Fabray) convince him to make a career comeback through a Broadway show they have written. Tony agrees to star in the show but runs into problems when the "artistic" director Jeffrey Cordova (Jack Buchanan) hires prima ballerina Gabriella Gerard (Cyd Charisse) to star with Tony. Tony and Gabriella do not get along, and the show appears doomed until all involved decide that they must work together if the show is to be a hit on Broadway. Musical numbers include "Dancing in the Dark," "I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan," and "Louisiana Hayride." 1 User Review
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| | not enough good music in it | babydoll07 04/22/2007 | | not enough good music in it and actors were not that good |
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Bells Are Ringing 1960 N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Judy Holliday, Dean Martin, Fred Clark, Eddie Foy Jr., Jean Stapleton, Frank Gorshin, Ruth Storey, Dort Clark, Ralph Roberts, Valerie Allen, Bernard West, Steve Peck, Gerry Mulligan, Jimmy Ames, Jan Arvan
Judy Holliday recreates her Broadway role of Manhattan telephone operator Ella Peterson who works for an answering service run by her cousin, Sue (Jean Stapleton). Ella gets involved with her clients and, while on the phone with playwright Jeffrey Moss (Dean Martin), Ella falls in love with him. Problems develop because Ella will not reveal her true identity, but Moss and other clients appear together at Ella's doorstep, and all ends happily. The songs include "Just in Time" and "The Party's Over." The film received an Oscar nomination for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.
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 Brigadoon 1954 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Barry Jones, Jimmy Thompson, Elaine Stewart, Albert Sharpe, Eddie Quillan, Hugh Laing, Tudor Owen
For one day every 100 years, a Scottish mythical village comes back to life. Two Americans, Tommy (Gene Kelly) and Jeff (Van Johnson), stumble into Brigadoon on that very day, and Tommy falls in love with Jean (Cyd Charisse). The film received three Academy Award nominations.
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 Cabin in the Sky 1943 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Ethel Waters, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, Rex Ingram, Mantan Moreland, Butterfly McQueen, Willie Best, Kenneth Spencer, John William Sublett
In this, Vincente Minnelli's first feature film, the story comes out as somewhat racist. Gambler Little Joe (Eddie "Rochester" Anderson) succumbs to the charms of a beautiful woman (Lena Horne) while his wife, Petunia (Ethel Waters), waits for him to come to his senses.
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The Clock 1945 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Under the Clock
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Judy Garland, Robert Walker, James Gleason, Keenan Wynn, Marshall Thompson, Lucile Gleason, Ruth Brady, Paul E. Burns, Eddie Acuff, Barbara Bedford
Judy Garland's debut in a dramatic film highlights this story about young lovers, Joe (Robert Walker) and Alice (Judy Garland), who fall in love and marry within 24 hours while soldier Joe is on a three-day leave from the Army.
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The Cobweb 1955  N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer, Gloria Grahame, Lillian Gish, John Kerr, Susan Strasberg, Oscar Levant, Tommy Rettig, Fay Wray
The cobweb is a mental institution in this film about relationships between various staff members. Susan Strasberg and John Kerr make their screen debuts in this movie.
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Designing Woman 1957 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Gregory Peck, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Gray, Sam Levene, Mickey Shaughnessy, Chuck Connors, Tom Helmore, Jesse White, Edward Platt, Alvy Moore
George Wells won the Oscar for Best Story or Screenplay for this tale about a sports writer, Mike (Gregory Peck), who falls in love with and marries a fashion designer, Marilla (Lauren Bacall). After the excitement of courtship ends, Mike and Marilla realize that they face problems combining their very different worlds of sports and fashions.
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Father of the Bride 1950 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, Don Taylor, Billie Burke, Leo G. Carroll, Moroni Olsen, Melville Cooper, Paul Harvey, Russ Tamblyn, Taylor Holmes, Frank Orth, Tom Irish, Marietta Canty, Fay Baker
This excellent film depicts a father Stanley T. Banks' (Spencer Tracy) emotions surrounding the approaching wedding of his only daughter Kay (Elizabeth Taylor). Mother Ellie (Joan Bennett) and daughter prepare wedding plans, but Father becomes concerned with financing the wedding. Underlying all this is Father's problem of coming to grips with losing his place of importance in his daughter's life. Academy Award nominations were received for Best Picture, Actor (Tracy), and Writing.
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Father's Little Dividend 1951 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Don Taylor, Billie Burke, Moroni Olsen, Russ Tamblyn, Paul Harvey, Richard Rober, Frank Faylen, Tom Irish, Hayden Rorke, Marietta Canty, Dabbs Greer, Howard M. Mitchell
This sequel to "Father of the Bride (1950)" has Stanley Banks (Spencer Tracy) trying to adjust to becoming a grandfather. His daughter Kay (Elizabeth Taylor) is now married to Buckley (Don Taylor), and they are expecting a baby. Stanley's overbearing wife Ellie (Joan Bennett) is worried throughout the pregnancy, but their young grandson arrives safely. The baby now screams whenever Stanley comes near–until Stanley mistakenly leaves the baby alone in his carriage for a half hour. When Stanley returns, he is greeted by a smiling baby, and he is finally a proud grandfather.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1962  N/R, 153 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb, Paul Henreid, Paul Lukas, Yvette Mimieux, George Dolenz, Karl Boehm, Nestor Paiva
This remake of the classic 1921 film is adapted from the Vincente Blasco Ibanez novel. The story is about a family whose relationships are turned upside down by war.
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Gigi 1958 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor, Jacques Bergerac, Isabel Jeans, John Abbott, Monique Van Vooren, Dorothy Neumann, Jean Ozenne, Bernard Musson, Edwin Jerome, Maurice Marsac, Corinne Marchand
This excellent film won nine Academy Awards. Gaston (Louis Jourdan) has his eye on Gigi (Leslie Caron) who, after a series of misadventures, becomes his wife. Narrated by Maurice Chevalier, this musical features such great songs as "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" and the title song (an Academy Award winner). Other Academy Awards included Best Picture and Director.
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Home from the Hill 1960  N/R, 150 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker, George Peppard, George Hamilton, Luana Patten, Constance Ford, Everett Sloane, Anne Seymour, Dub Taylor, Ray Teal
Land baron Captain Wade Hunnicutt (Robert Mitchum) has a lifetime's worth of family problems–both legitimate and illegitimate–that he must face. 1 User Review
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| | Anonymous 09/25/2009 | | I think it was good, good story line. There was alot of over acting, not by Mitchum, but by Eleanor Parker and George Hamilton. Mitchum and Peppard wrer great. Would like to see it re-done with todays actors, a classic made better! |
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 I Dood It 1943 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Musical
aka: By Hook or By Crook
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Red Skelton, Eleanor Powell, Richard Ainley, Patricia Dane, Thurston Hall, Lena Horne, John Hodiak, Butterfly McQueen, Sam Levene, Hazel Scott
Joseph Rivington Reynolds (Red Skelton) is a valet who marries a dancing star (Eleanor Powell)–whom he idolizes–when she wants to make her boyfriend jealous.
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Kismet 1955  N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Musical / Fantasy / Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray, Vic Damone, Monty Woolley, Sebastian Cabot, Jay C. Flippen, Jack Elam, Ted de Corsia, Ross Bagdasarian, Mike Mazurki, Reiko Sato, Julie Robinson, Jamie Farr
Howard Keel plays Baghdad beggar, The Poet, whose daughter Marsinah (Ann Blyth) falls in love with the young Caliph (Vic Damone) while the sexy wife (Dolores Gray) of the Wazir (Sebastian Cabot) has her eyes on The Poet. Fate steps in, and all live happily ever after. The songs "Stranger in Paradise" and "Baubles, Bangles, and Beads" are highlights of this Arabian Nights musical.
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The Long, Long Trailer 1953 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Marjorie Main, Keenan Wynn, Gladys Hurlbut, Moroni Olsen, Bert Freed, Madge Blake, Walter Baldwin, Oliver Blake, Perry Sheehan, Frank Gerstle, John Call, Edgar Dearing, Jack Kruschen
While setting off on their honeymoon, Nicky and Tracy Collini (Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball) naively opt to live in a 40-foot trailer in his comedy about getting their rig from one spot to another as Nicky's job sites change. Their decision results in a series of comedic disasters that leave them on the verge of divorce. But, by story's end, their marriage is saved.
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Lust for Life 1956 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Everett Sloane, Niall MacGinnis, Jill Bennett, Eric Pohlmann, James Donald, Pamela Brown, Henry Daniell, Lionel Jeffries, Noel Purcell, Madge Kennedy, Laurence Naismith, Jeannette Sterke, Toni Gerry
Vincent Van Gogh (Kirk Douglas) led an artistically creative life marked by periods of insanity. This is the story of his genius, which ended in suicide. Anthony Quinn won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Paul Gauguin, and Kirk Douglas was nominated for Best Actor.
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Madame Bovary 1949 N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Jennifer Jones, James Mason, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, Alf Kjellin, Gene Lockhart, Frank Allenby, Gladys Cooper, Harry Morgan, George Zucco, John Abbott, Ellen Corby, Eduard Franz, Henri Letondal, Esther Somers
Set in 19th-century France, this is the film adaptation of Flaubert's classic novel about Emma Bovary (Jennifer Jones) and her scandalous affairs that lead to tragedy. Country girl Emma is bored with her life and marries Dr. Charles Bovary (Van Heflin) hoping for romance and social standing. But, the marriage is not what she had dreamed, and Emma begins affairs with numerous suitors–until, finally, in despair she commits suicide.
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A Matter of Time 1976  PG, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Liza Minnelli, Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Spiros Andros, Tina Aumont, Fernando Rey, Isabella Rossellini, Gabriele Ferzetti, Orso Maria Guerrini, Amedeo Nazzari
Nina (Liza Minnelli) is a hotel maid who rises to stardom under the tutelage of the aging Contessa (Ingrid Bergman). While this would be Vincente Minnelli and Charles Boyer's final film, it marks Isabella Rossellini's screen debut.
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 Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Family / Musical / Romance
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Lucille Bremer, Mary Astor, Leon Ames, June Lockhart, Harry Davenport, Marjorie Main, Tom Drake, Chill Wills, Joan Carroll, Hugh Marlowe, Robert Sully, Darryl Hickman, Victor Kilian
In 1903, the Smith family must deal with moving away from St. Louis and the World's Fair, which means leaving friends behind when the father, Alonzo (Leon Ames), has plans to relocate to New York City. The children Esther, Tootie, Rose, and Agnes (Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Lucille Bremer, and Joan Carroll) represent an earlier, more innocent era of childhood in this classic musical.
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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever 1970 G, 123 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Bob Newhart, Larry Blyden, Simon Oakland, Jack Nicholson, John Richardson, Pamela Brown, Irene Handl, Roy Kinnear
Daisy Gamble (Barbra Streisand) has ESP, which is explained when she undergoes hypnosis and tells about being a number of people who have lived in the past.
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 The Pirate 1948 N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Walter Slezak, Gladys Cooper, Reginald Owen, George Zucco, Lester Allen, Lola Deem, Ellen Ross, Mary Jo Ellis
Manuella (Judy Garland) is a Caribbean girl happily engaged to Don Pedro (Walter Slezak)–until a dashing "pirate" (Gene Kelly) sails into her life.
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The Reluctant Debutante 1958 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, John Saxon, Sandra Dee, Angela Lansbury, Peter Myers, Diane Clare, Charles Cullum, Charles Herbert, Ambrosine Phillpotts
Jane (Sandra Dee) is already scheduled by her parents (Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall) for her coming-out party when she becomes involved with an American jazz drummer.
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The Sandpiper 1965  N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint, Charles Bronson, Morgan Mason, Robert Webber, Torin Thatcher, James Edwards, Tom Drake, Peter O'Toole
This story involves the love triangle between a pious, Episcopalian priest (Richard Burton), his wife (Eva Marie Saint), and an adventuresome artist (Elizabeth Taylor). A Best Song Academy Award was received for "The Shadow of Your Smile." Otherwise, this is a pretty weak entry.
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Some Came Running 1958 N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer, Arthur Kennedy, Nancy Gates, Leora Dana, Larry Gates, Betty Lou Keim, Connie Gilchrist, Steve Peck, Ned Wever, Roy Engel, Don Haggerty, Joe Gray
This film is based on James Jones' novel about writer Dave Hirsh's (Frank Sinatra) conflicts when he returns to his hometown of Parktown, Indiana, following World War II and must decide between respectable and decadent lifestyles. His businessman brother Frank (Arthur Kennedy) introduces Dave to schoolteacher Gwen French (Martha Hyer), but, when Dave won't break his ties to local gambler Bama Dillert (Dean Martin) and floozy Ginny Moorehead (Shirley MacLaine), tragedy lies ahead. Academy Award nominations were received for Best Actress (MacLaine), Supporting Actor (Kennedy), and Supporting Actress (Hyer).
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The Story of Three Loves 1953 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt
Cast: Pier Angeli, Ethel Barrymore, Leslie Caron, Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Farley Granger, Agnes Moorehead, Ricky Nelson, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Richard Anderson
While traveling on an ocean liner, three passengers remember their love stories in this movie which is actually a trio of short films.
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Tea and Sympathy 1956 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson, Edward Andrews, Norma Crane, Dean Jones, Darryl Hickman, Jacqueline deWit, Tom Laughlin, Mary Alan Hokanson
This is the film version of the successful Broadway play in which a young student (John Kerr) discovers happiness through the sensitivity of his lover (Deborah Kerr) who happens to be his teacher's wife.
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Two Weeks in Another Town 1962 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse, George Hamilton, Claire Trevor, Daliah Lavi, James Gregory, Rosanna Schiaffino, George Macready, Stefan Schnabel
While making a movie in Rome, actor Jack Andrus (Kirk Douglas) realizes that he must trust in himself in this film-within-a-film.
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Undercurrent 1946 N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Edmund Gwenn, Jayne Meadows, Marjorie Main, Clinton Sundberg, Dan Tobin, Kathryn Card, Charles Trowbridge, Leigh Whipper, James Westerfield
Following a whirlwind romance, Ann Hamilton (Katharine Hepburn) marries investor/businessman Alan Garroway (Robert Taylor), and shortly thereafter problems rise to the fore. Alan refuses to discuss his missing brother Michael (Robert Mitchum), and as Ann tries to solve the mystery she begins to suspect that Alan murdered Michael. But, while visiting a ranch, Ann discovers that a man she has been questioning is, in fact, Michael. By now, problems lie deep and extend to Alan wanting to end the marriage.
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Yolanda and the Thief 1945 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Fred Astaire, Lucille Bremer, Frank Morgan, Mildred Natwick, Leon Ames, Mary Nash, Ludwig Stossel, Francis Pierlot, Leon Belasco, Gigi Perreau
Con man Johnny Riggs (Fred Astaire) poses as an angel to get his hands on the susceptible Yolanda's (Lucille Bremer) inheritance.
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Ziegfeld Follies 1946 N/R, 116 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: William Powell, Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, Red Skelton, Esther Williams, Fanny Brice
This musical features William Powell as Florenz Ziegfeld who looks down from Heaven and dreams of this film that is chock-full of MGM musical stars.
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1. An American in Paris (1951)
2. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
3. The Band Wagon (1953)
4. Bells Are Ringing (1960)
5. Brigadoon (1954)
6. Cabin in the Sky (1943)
7. The Clock (1945)
aka: Under the Clock
8. The Cobweb (1955)
9. The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963)
10. Designing Woman (1957)
11. Father of the Bride (1950)
12. Father's Little Dividend (1951)
13. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
14. Gigi (1958)
15. Goodbye Charlie (1964)
16. Home from the Hill (1960)
17. I Dood It (1943)
aka: By Hook or By Crook
18. Kismet (1955)
19. The Long, Long Trailer (1953)
20. Lust for Life (1956)
21. Madame Bovary (1949)
22. A Matter of Time (1976)
23. Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
24. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
25. The Pirate (1948)
26. The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
27. The Sandpiper (1965)
28. Some Came Running (1958)
29. The Story of Three Loves (1953)
30. Tea and Sympathy (1956)
31. Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
32. Undercurrent (1946)
33. Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
34. Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
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