 After the Thin Man 1936  N/R, 113 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart, Elissa Landi, Sam Levene, Joseph Calleia, George Zucco, Paul Fix, Jessie Ralph, Alan Marshal
Nick, Nora, and Asta are back in another delightfully clever film in which one of Nora's upper-crust relatives might be a murderer. William Powell and Myrna Loy are incomparable as Nick and Nora Charles, and Asta, of course, is the terrier with an attitude.
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Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever 1939  N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford, Sara Haden, Helen Gilbert, Terry Kilburn, John T. Murray, George P. Breakston, Sidney Miller, Addison Richards
When Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) has a crush on his high-school drama teacher, Miss Meredith (Helen Gilbert), he writes a play that is chosen to be shown at school, he stars in it, and gets to spend more time with Miss Meredith.
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Another Thin Man 1939  N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger, C. Aubrey Smith, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton, Tom Neal, Sheldon Leonard, Marjorie Main
In this third in the series of "Thin Man" films, new parents Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy) solve a murder case that took place in a New York mansion.
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Dr. Kildare's Victory 1941  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Anne Ayars, Robert Sterling, Jean Rogers, Alma Kruger, Walter Kingsford, Nell Craig, Edward Gargan, Marie Blake
Two hospitals are feuding, which results in an intern being fired for bringing a patient to the wrong hospital. Dr. Kildare (Lew Ayres) successfully performs surgery on the beautiful patient, Edith (Ann Ayres). She then proceeds to fall in love with Kildare, but he still grieves for his fiancee, who died (in the previous episode). With several members of the cast of the earlier films missing, this was the appropriate time to end the series.
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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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His Brother's Wife 1936 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Jean Hersholt, Joseph Calleia, John Eldredge, Samuel S. Hinds, Phyllis Clare, Leonard Mudie, Jed Prouty, Pedro de Cordoba
When Rita (Barbara Stanwyck) is left by her lover, Chris (Robert Taylor), who heads for the jungle on a scientific expedition, she marries his brother out of spite.
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I Live My Life 1935  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Joan Crawford, Brian Aherne, Frank Morgan, Aline MacMahon, Eric Blore, Arthur Treacher, Hedda Hopper, Frank Conroy, Sterling Holloway, Lionel Stander
Poor archaeologist Terry (Brian Aherne) and society woman Kay (Joan Crawford) follow an uneasy path–all the way to the altar.
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I Love You Again 1940 N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank McHugh, Edmund Lowe, Donald Douglas, Nella Walker, Pierre Watkin, Paul Stanton, Morgan Wallace, Charles Arnt
An amnesiac (William Powell) is dull and boring, but then he receives a bump on the head and regains his old personality–and the love of his wife (Myrna Loy). Very funny–even today.
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I Take This Woman 1940  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Hedy Lamarr, Verree Teasdale, Kent Taylor, Laraine Day, Mona Barrie, Louis Calhern, Marjorie Main, Frances Drake, Jack Carson
After Karl Decker (Spencer Tracy) saves the life of Georgi Gragore (Hedy Lamarr), they marry. Although Karl is determined to make Georgi happy, there are many obstacles in the way. Good cast can't save.
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It's a Wonderful World 1939 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee, Nat Pendleton, Frances Drake, Edgar Kennedy, Ernest Truex, Sidney Blackmer, Hans Conried, Richard Carle
A writer (Claudette Colbert) joins up with a fugitive (James Stewart), and together they outwit the police (Nat Pendleton and Edgar Kennedy).
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Love on the Run 1936 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Reginald Owen, Mona Barrie, Ivan Lebedeff, William Demarest, Donald Meek, Dewey Robinson, Charles Judels
Foreign correspondent Michael Anthony (Clark Gable) gets involved in the world of espionage during his attempt to woo the beautiful heiress Sally Parker (Joan Crawford).
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Manhattan Melodrama 1934 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo, Mickey Rooney, Nat Pendleton, George Sidney, Frank Conroy, Isabel Jewell, Herman Bing
This is the film that John Dillinger watched, at the Biograph Theater in Chicago, moments before police shot him to death and ended his life of crime. The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Story; the plot is about gangster Blackie Gallagher (Clark Gable) and honest politician Jim Wade (William Powell) who, although childhood friends, ended up leading directly opposed lives.
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Marie Antoinette 1938 N/R, 160 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise, Joseph Schildkraut, Gladys George, Henry Stephenson, Reginald Gardiner, Cora Witherspoon
Set in pre-revolutionary France, MGM spared nothing on its opulent sets, French antiques, and expensive costumes in presenting this story of the doomed Austrian princess (Norma Shearer) who became Queen of France just as it became a "crumbling" empire.
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 Naughty Marietta 1935 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Elsa Lanchester, Douglass Dumbrille, Joseph Cawthorn, Cecilia Parker, Walter Kingsford, Akim Tamiroff, Edward Brophy
Victor Herbert's 1910 operetta is brought to the screen and includes the first-time pairing of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. The plot involves a French princess escaping an arranged marriage and fleeing to New Orleans where she meets and falls in love with a dashing mercenary.
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Oliver Twist 1916 N/R, 50 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: James Young
Cast: Marie Doro, Hobart Bosworth, Raymond Hatton, James Neill, Tully Marshall, W.S. Van Dyke, Edythe Chapman, Elsie Jane Wilson, Harry L. Rattenberry, Carl Stockdale, George Hackathorne, Robert McKenzie, Jack Sacker
This is the earliest film of Charles Dickens' novel about the orphan Oliver (Marie Doro) who, with the evil Fagin (Tully Marshall) as his tutor, becomes a pickpocket–until he is rescued and restored to decency through his father's inheritance.
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Penthouse 1933 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth, Mae Clarke, Raymond Hatton, Phillips Holmes, C. Henry Gordon, Nat Pendleton, George E. Stone, Samuel S. Hinds
A lawyer works for the Mob and then finds himself the object of a murder frame-up. Good flick.
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The Prizefighter and the Lady 1933 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Myrna Loy, Max Baer, Walter Huston, Otto Kruger, Primo Carnera, Jack Dempsey, Vince Barnett, Robert McWade, Garry Owen, Matt McHugh
Max Baer makes his film debut in this film about a boxer (Max Baer) who falls in love with the girlfriend (Myrna Loy) of a mobster and then refuses to throw his fight.
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Rose-Marie 1936 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Musical
aka: Indian Love Call
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, James Stewart, Reginald Owen, Alan Mowbray, David Niven, George Regas, Robert Greig, Una O'Connor, Lucien Littlefield
Set in the Canadian Rockies, this story involves the romance of a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman, Sergeant Bruce (Nelson Eddy), and the beautiful Marie de Flor (Jeanette MacDonald) who find love despite Marie's criminal brother.
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San Francisco 1936  N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical / Romance
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt, Ted Healy, Jessie Ralph, Shirley Ross, Edgar Kennedy, Jason Robards Sr., Harold Huber, Margaret Irving, William Ricciardi, Kenneth Harlan, Roger Imhof, Frank Mayo
Blackie Norton (Clark Gable) owns the Paradise beer garden in San Francisco where he hires singer Mary Blake (Jeanette MacDonald) to sing. Romance between Blackie and Mary is in the air, but club patron Jack Burley (Jack Holt) vies for Mary's attentions and offers her a job with the San Francisco Opera. Blackie's friend, Father Mullin (Spencer Tracy), also believes that Mary should be singing somewhere other than at Blackie's bar. Mary is torn between working for Blackie and looking for a classier job. Then fate steps in when San Francisco is hit by the great 1906 Earthquake, and the film's climax takes place amidst the backdrop of fires breaking out, buildings swaying and collapsing, and the rubble brought on by the disaster. This epic film earned a number of Academy Award nominations (Best Picture, Spencer Tracy for Best Actor, and W.S. Van Dyke for Best Director) but ended up with only one Oscar–Best Sound Recording.
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 Shadow of the Thin Man 1941 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson, Donna Reed, Sam Levene, Alan Baxter, Loring Smith, Henry O'Neill, Will Wright, Louise Beavers
Master sleuths Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy) are at it again. Of course, their dog Asta is in the middle of things as they investigate mysterious events at the local racetrack.
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 Tarzan, the Ape Man 1932 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith, Doris Lloyd, Forrester Harvey, Ivory Williams, Johnny Eck
This film is the first of the "Tarzan" entries. Champion swimmer Johnny Weissmuller stars in the title role with Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane, the daughter of a British safari-leader. Good film.
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They Gave Him a Gun 1937 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Franchot Tone, Gladys George, Edgar Dearing, Mary Treen, Cliff Edwards, Charles Trowbridge, Joe Sawyer, George Chandler, Gavin Gordon
Returning home after duty in World War I, Jimmy (Franchot Tone), has trouble adapting to civilian life and becomes involved with gangsters until his friend, Fred (Spencer Tracy), finally convinces him to turn his life around.
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 The Thin Man 1934 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Cesar Romero, Nat Pendleton, Minna Gombell, Porter Hall, Henry Wadsworth, Harold Huber, William Henry
This is the first in a 10-year series of Thin Man movies starring William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora Charles. In this film, they investigate the murder of a weird inventor. Myrna Loy: "Waiter, will you serve the nuts–I mean, would you serve the guests the nuts?" Academy Award nominations were received for Best Picture, Actor, Director, and Writing.
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| 1. After the Thin Man (1936)
2. Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)
3. Another Thin Man (1939)
4. Dr. Kildare's Victory (1941)
5. Forsaking All Others (1934)
6. His Brother's Wife (1936)
7. I Live My Life (1935)
8. I Love You Again (1940)
9. I Take This Woman (1940)
10. It's a Wonderful World (1939)
11. Love on the Run (1936)
12. Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
13. Marie Antoinette (1938)
14. Naughty Marietta (1935)
15. Oliver Twist (1916)
16. Penthouse (1933)
17. The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)
18. Rage in Heaven (1941)
19. Rose-Marie (1936)
aka: Indian Love Call
20. San Francisco (1936)
21. Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
22. Tarzan, the Ape Man (1932)
23. They Gave Him a Gun (1937)
24. The Thin Man (1934)
25. Trader Horn (1931)
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