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Directed by John G. BlystoneOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceActors Miriam Hopkins,
Joel McCrea,
Charles Winninger,
Erik Rhodes,
Leona Maricle,
Broderick CrawfordRating64%
B.J. Nolan tries to get his millionaire son Kenneth to invest $100,000 in a housing development called Nolan Heights. However, B.J. has a long history of backing crazy projects (which is why his wife left all her money to her son in her will), so Kenneth turns him down., 1h49
Directed by Mark SandrichOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Dance films,
Films about music and musicians,
Films about classical music and musicians,
Jazz films,
Musical filmsActors Fred Astaire,
Ginger Rogers,
Edward Everett Horton,
Eric Blore,
Jerome Cowan,
Ben AlexanderRating74%
Peter P. Peters (Fred Astaire), an American ballet dancer billed as "Petrov", dances for a ballet company in Paris owned by the bumbling Jeffrey Baird (Edward Everett Horton). Peters secretly wants to blend classical ballet with modern jazz dancing, and when he sees a photo of famous tap dancer Linda Keene (Ginger Rogers), he falls in love with her. He contrives to meet her, but she is less than impressed. They meet again on an ocean liner traveling back to New York, and Linda warms to Petrov. Unknown to them, a plot is launched as a publicity stunt "proving" that they are actually married. Outraged, Linda becomes engaged to the bumbling Jim Montgomery (William Brisbane), much to the chagrin of both Peters and Arthur Miller (Jerome Cowan), her manager, who secretly launches more fake publicity. Peters and Keene, unable to squelch the rumor, decide to actually marry and then immediately get divorced. Linda begins to fall in love with her husband, but then discovers him with another woman, Lady Denise Tarrington (Ketti Gallian), and leaves before he can explain. Later, when she comes to his new show to personally serve him divorce papers, she sees him dancing with dozens of women, all wearing masks with her face on them: Peters has decided that if he cannot dance with Linda, he will dance with images of Linda. Seeing that he truly loves her, she happily joins him onstage., 1h58
Directed by William Dieterle,
William KeighleyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Fantasy,
Swashbuckler,
AdventureThemes Films about children,
Films about families,
Political films,
Films about royaltyActors Errol Flynn,
Billy Mauch et Bobby Mauch,
Claude Rains,
Barton MacLane,
Henry Stephenson,
Alan HaleRating71%
In Tudor England, two boys are born on the same day in the most different circumstances imaginable. Tom (Billy Mauch) is the son of vicious criminal John Canty (Barton MacLane), while Edward VI (Bobby Mauch) is a prince and the heir of King Henry VIII of England (Montagu Love). One grows up in poverty, hungering for something better for himself and his family, the other in isolated luxury, with a strong curiosity about the outside world., 1h31
Directed by Leo McCarey,
Ray McCareyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Films based on playsActors Victor Moore,
Beulah Bondi,
Fay Bainter,
Thomas Mitchell,
Porter Hall,
Elisabeth RisdonRating81%
Barkley "Bark" (Victor Moore) and Lucy Cooper (Beulah Bondi) are an elderly couple who lose their home to foreclosure, as Barkley has been unable to find employment because of his age. They summon four of their five children—the fifth lives thousands of miles away in California—to break the news and decide where they will live until they can get back on their feet. Only one of the children, Nell (Minna Gombell), has enough space for both, but she asks for three months to talk her husband into the idea. In the meantime, the temporary solution is for the parents to split up and each live with a different child., 1h34
Directed by W. S. Van DykeOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
CrimeThemes Political filmsActors Spencer Tracy,
Gladys George,
Franchot Tone,
Edgar Dearing,
Mary Treen,
Charles TrowbridgeRating62%
The movie begins in World War I when a young man named Jimmy (Franchot Tone) unexpectedly becomes a hero by killing all the Germans in a machine gun nest. But he is then severely wounded and spends time in a hospital being cared for by a nurse, Rose (Gladys George), with whom he falls in love. But she is really in love with Jimmy’s buddy, Fred (Spencer Tracy), a carnival barker. However, when Fred doesn't return from the battlefield, the two think he’s been killed (when he was merely captured) and so they make wedding plans. Then when Fred returns he decides to support Jimmy and Rose marrying, even though it breaks his heart. After the war Fred meets up with Jimmy again and discovers that Jimmy is a racketeer who uses his battle skills to commit murder. So he tells Rose, who had no idea. She then reports her husband to the police so he will go to prison and be reformed. But Jimmy breaks out of prison and tries to take Rose on the lam with him. At this point Fred intervenes. Jimmy, feeling undeserving, commits suicide by police.