Anything can happen during a weekend at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that…

A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan recently arrived in the United States. Director John Waters’ 1946 period comedy, set in New York’s Bowery, stars Wallace…

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect crime.

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match….

Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. During one crowded night,…

Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He soon discovers, upon going to…

A man is haunted by a murder he’s committed.

In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner…

Wallace Beery, in his final film, plays a bandit in this period drama set in Colonial America.

A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired…

A Texas oil driller schemes to steal millions of dollars in oil.

A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.

A charming racketeer seduces the DA’s stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.

Living with his family in Baltimore, 9-year-old Lewie Penrose claims that he can converse with horses–and also pick the winners of upcoming races. When it appears as though Lewie is…

Wealthy American society matron, Stella Hadley refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war effort until she realizes that her selfishness is cheating the boys overseas who are…

The bold Tira works as dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. Out of an urgent need of money, she agrees to a risky new number: she’ll put her…

A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.

A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden…

Gunslinger Annie Oakley romances fellow sharpshooter Frank Butler as they travel with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.

Gwen Saunders teams up with her uncle’s employee, Steve Bennett, in an attempt to double her $10,000 investment in the family firm. If she can reach the $20,000 mark, her…

A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.

A group of disparate travelers are caught are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin’s influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.

As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed “John Doe,” who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire…

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife’s just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on…

An Arab prince masquerades as a tour guide for rich women in order to enrich himself.

Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His…

A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of…

After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That he loves her. That he’s…

According to a legend, the mansion’s “blue room” is cursed — everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors…

A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.

Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day that he…

Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.

Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle…

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father’s release. As assistant to mobster…

The “Cheaper by the Dozen” crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband’s income, while Anne, Martha, and even Ernestine find romance.

The Wolves baseball team gets steamed when they find they’ve been inherited by one K.C. Higgins, a suspected “fathead” who intends to take an active interest in running the team….

Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.