Appointment for Love 1941  N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: William A. Seiter
Cast: Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Rita Johnson, Eugene Pallette, Ruth Terry, Reginald Denny, Cecil Kellaway, J.M. Kerrigan, Gus Schilling, Virginia Brissac
Newlyweds Andre (Charles Boyer) and Jane (Margaret Sullavan) live in separate apartments during some harried moments early in their marriage. Their busy schedules are worked out by film's end, and it appears that they will live happily ever after.
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Black Friday 1940 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, Anne Nagel, Anne Gwynne, Virginia Brissac, Edmund MacDonald, Paul Fix, Joe King, Jack Mulhall
Doctor Ernest Sovac (Boris Karloff) transplants the brain of a criminal into his friend who, in turn, takes on a new personality.
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Dark Victory 1939  N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Edmund Goulding
Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Humphrey Bogart, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers, Cora Witherspoon, Virginia Brissac, Dorothy Peterson, Herbert Rawlinson, Charles Richman, Leonard Mudie, Fay Helm, John Ridgely, David Newell
A young heiress (Bette Davis) learns that she has a fatal brain tumor. During the course of treatment, she falls in love with her doctor (George Brent) and finds new meaning in her life.
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 Dressed to Kill 1941 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama
Director: Eugene Forde
Cast: Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, Sheila Ryan, William Demarest, Ben Carter, Virginia Brissac, Henry Daniell, Charles Trowbridge, Mantan Moreland, Milton Parsons, Erwin Kalser, Dick Rich, Hamilton MacFadden, May Beatty, Charles C. Wilson
Tough private investigator Michael Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) is preparing to marry showgirl Joanne La Mar (Mary Beth Hughes) when he becomes involved in investigating a string of theatrical murders that are all linked to the same play that had been produced 25 years earlier. All of the victims were wearing costumes from the play when their bodies were discovered. Using a souvenir program, Nolan uncovers clues leading to the murderer and solves the case. But, Joanne is fed up with the time he spends on investigations and leaves him.
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 The Ghost Breakers 1940  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Marshall
Cast: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Paul Lukas, Willie Best, Anthony Quinn, Tom Dugan, Paul Fix, Richard Carlson, Pedro de Cordoba, Virginia Brissac
Determined to find a treasure, Mary Carter (Paulette Goddard) heads for a haunted house with Larry Lawrence (Bob Hope) in tow. Larry is trying to escape from a bum charge and the police are on his tail as he tries to rid the house of ghosts and help Mary find the missing treasure. This film was remade as "Scared Stiff" with Martin and Lewis.
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The Great Lie 1941 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edmund Goulding
Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor, Lucile Watson, Hattie McDaniel, Grant Mitchell, Jerome Cowan, Thurston Hall, Olin Howland, J. Farrell MacDonald, Charles Trowbridge, Russell Hicks, Virginia Brissac, Addison Richards, Sam McDaniel
Mary Astor won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role of Sandra Kovak, a woman pregnant with Maggie Patterson's (Bette Davis) deceased husband, Pete's (George Brent), child. Maggie plans to raise the child as her own, but Pete turns up alive, and Maggie and Sandra vie for custody and for Pete's love as well.
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The Hard Way 1943 N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Ida Lupino, Joan Leslie, Jack Carson, Dennis Morgan, Gladys George, Faye Emerson, Paul Cavanagh, Roman Bohnen, Leona Maricle, Ann Doran, Eddie Acuff, Monte Blue, Virginia Brissac, Julie Bishop, Eddy Chandler
Helen Chemen (Ida Lupino in one of her best performances) pushes her talented sister Katie (Joan Leslie) to enter show business as the means to get out of poverty in Pennsylvania. Katie becomes a star, but not without consequences. Heavy and depressing at times, but the acting saves it.
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 Harriet Craig 1950 N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Vincent Sherman
Cast: Joan Crawford, Wendell Corey, Lucile Watson, Allyn Joslyn, Ellen Corby, William Bishop, K.T. Stevens, Raymond Greenleaf, Virginia Brissac, Douglas Wood
In this remake of "Craig's Wife," Joan Crawford takes on the Rosalind Russell role of the domineering perfectionist who alienates all around her.
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Invitation to Happiness 1939 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Cast: Irene Dunne, Fred MacMurray, Charles Ruggles, Billy Cook, William Collier Sr., Eddie Hogan, Marion Martin, Gordon Jones, Doodles Weaver, Virginia Brissac
Boxer Albert "King" Cole (Fred MacMurray) strives for both fame in the ring and love from his estranged wife, Eleanor (Irene Dunne), and finds difficulty in both efforts.
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Lady Gangster 1942  N/R, 62 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Florey
Cast: Faye Emerson, Julie Bishop, Frank Wilcox, Ruth Ford, Virginia Brissac, Roland Drew, Jackie Gleason, Dorothy Adams, William Hopper, William "Bill" Phillips, Vera Lewis, Dorothy Vaughan
Aspiring actress Dot Burton (Faye Emerson) takes a turn in the wrong direction when she hooks up with a gang of bank robbers. Ending up in prison, she participates in a breakout and eventually goes straight after saving Kenneth's (Frank Wilcox) life. There is good reason for director Florey to have used a pseudonym in this weak effort.
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The Little Foxes 1941  N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Wyler
Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright, Richard Carlson, Dan Duryea, Charles Dingle, Lucien Littlefield, Patricia Collinge, Carl Benton Reid, Jessica Grayson, John Marriott, Russell Hicks, Virginia Brissac, Al Bridge, Kenny Washington
Regina Gibbons (Bette Davis) could aptly be described as "the wife from Hell." When her husband, Horace (Herbert Marshall), refuses to join in her evil scheme, she simply refuses to give him his heart medicine–he dies!! The film received nine Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Actress, Supporting Actress (two nominations: Patricia Collinge and Teresa Wright), and Director. Based on Lillian Hellman's play.
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Ma and Pa Kettle at Home 1954 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Lamont
Cast: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Alan Mowbray, Alice Kelley, Mary Wickes, Brett Halsey, Irving Bacon, Emory Parnell, Oliver Blake, Virginia Brissac
Elwin Kettle (Brett Halsey) enters an essay contest to win money for his college education. As a finalist, he must play host to the contest's judges, and Ma (Marjorie Main) and Pa (Percy Kilbride) try to get the farm cleaned up for the visit.
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The Mating of Millie 1948 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Henry Levin
Cast: Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes, Ron Randell, Willard Parker, Virginia Hunter, Jimmy Hunt, Mabel Paige, Virginia Brissac, Patsy Creighton, Tom Stevenson
When Millie McGonigle (Evelyn Keyes) seeks a husband so she can adopt an orphan, her aide-de-camp, Doug Andrews (Glenn Ford), becomes more than a helper as Millie and Doug fall in love and marry.
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The Mummy's Tomb 1942 N/R, 61 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Harold Young
Cast: Lon Chaney Jr., Elyse Knox, John Hubbard, Turhan Bey, Dick Foran, Wallace Ford, George Zucco, Mary Gordon, Virginia Brissac, Cliff Clark, Paul E. Burns, Frank Reicher, Emmett Vogan, Harry Cording, Rex Lease
In this sequel to "The Mummy's Hand," Lon Chaney Jr. makes his debut in the role of Kharis, the Mummy. Although it was assumed in the earlier film that archaeologist Steve Banning (Dick Foran) had killed the Mummy, he was only injured. Now, the Mummy is hiding in a Mapleton, Massachusetts, graveyard waiting for the first full moon in order to seek revenge against those who had desecrated Princess Ananka's tomb 30 years ago.
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 Rebel Without a Cause 1955  N/R, 111 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Nicholas Ray
Cast: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Dennis Hopper, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Nick Adams, Corey Allen, William Hopper, Rochelle Hudson, Virginia Brissac, Marietta Canty, Jack Grinnage, Ian Wolfe, Edward Platt
A new kid in town, troubled teenager Jim (James Dean), cannot reconcile himself to his parents' middle-class lifestyle and is befriended by two high-school classmates Judy and Plato (Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo). However, as the friendship develops, and they get involved in a "chicken" race of cars speeding toward a cliff, tragedy ensues. Mineo and Wood received Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress.
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The Scarlet Clue 1945 N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Phil Rosen
Cast: Sidney Toler, Benson Fong, Mantan Moreland, Helen Devereaux, Virginia Brissac, Jack Norton, I. Stanford Jolley, Janet Shaw, Robert Homans, Reid Kilpatrick
Stepping into the world of espionage, Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) prevents spies from stealing World War II radar plans.
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 Strike Up the Band 1940 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Busby Berkeley
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, June Preisser, Ann Shoemaker, William Tracy, George Lessey, Milton Kibbee, Helen Jerome Eddy, Virginia Brissac, Margaret Early
This is not one of Busby Berkeley's better films, but a good Gershwin score helps. The plot involves high-school bandleader Jimmy Connors (Mickey Rooney) and his band's vocalist Mary Holden (Judy Garland) who enter the competition in Paul Whiteman's nationwide band contest.
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Tension 1949 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Berry
Cast: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse, Barry Sullivan, Lloyd Gough, Tom D'Andrea, William Conrad, Tito Renaldo, Philip Van Zandt, Dewey Robinson, Tommy Ryan, Jack Daley, Virginia Brissac, Steve Roberts, Hayward Soo Hoo
A pharmacist, Warren Quimby (Richard Basehart), suffers after learning that his wife Claire (Audrey Totter) is having an affair and hatches a plot to kill her lover Barney (Lloyd Gough). Warren takes on a new identity to perform the perfect crime, but someone else kills Barney before Warren gets to him, and now Warren is the prime suspect.
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1945 N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, James Dunn, Peggy Ann Garner, Lloyd Nolan, James Gleason, Ruth Nelson, John Alexander, Ferike Boros, Ted Donaldson, B.S. Pully, Al Bridge, Virginia Brissac, Charles Halton, J. Farrell McDonald
Financial worries of her parents, Katie and Johnny Nolan (Dorothy McGuire and James Dunn), affect the happiness of teenager Francie (Peggy Ann Garner) at the end of the 19th century. Growing up in a tenement existence, Francie wants a better life but struggles just to survive. A tree that survives the seasons is visible from their tenement and is her family's symbol of survival. This film is the first directorial effort of Elia Kazan. Dunn won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and Garner was presented an Honorary Oscar as Outstanding Child Actress.
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| 1. Appointment for Love (1941)
2. Black Friday (1940)
3. Dark Victory (1939)
4. Dressed to Kill (1941)
5. The Ghost Breakers (1940)
6. The Great Lie (1941)
7. The Hard Way (1943)
8. Harriet Craig (1950)
9. Invitation to Happiness (1939)
10. Lady Gangster (1942)
11. The Little Foxes (1941)
12. Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954)
13. The Mating of Millie (1948)
14. The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
15. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
16. The Scarlet Clue (1945)
17. Strike Up the Band (1940)
18. Tension (1949)
19. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
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