Joan Leslie

Robert Alda stars alongside musical greats Al Jolson, Paul Whiteman, and Oscar Levant in this lavish fictionalized biography of composer George Gershwin. The film traces Gershwin's rise from a "song plugger" for a Manhattan music publishing company to the heights of international fame and fortune. Gershwin's first big hit is "Swanee," introduced on Broadway by Al Jolson. In collaboration with his lyricist brother, Ira, George pens hit after hit in show after show. But George's kindly old music teacher wants his prize pupil to aspire to something more artistic. Gershwin responds with "Rhapsody in Blue," which debuts at Aeolian Hall in 1924 under the baton of bandleader Paul Whiteman. As his fame and workload grows, George finds he has no time at all for romance; the two ladies in his life both eventually realize that they'll always have to play second fiddle to Gershwin's muse.

Fred Astaire finds a new dance partner in Joan Leslie in this delightful wartime musical.

In 19th century Kansas, a veterinarian helps an ailing stranger and ex-guerrilla raider, which gets him thrown into a notoriously brutal prison.

In WWI dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank

Recruited to fight in World War I, a Tennessee farmer with deep pacifist beliefs is driven to take up arms when his unit is overwhelmed by Germans.

The tents are leaky. The troupers are weary. The carnival limps into town and sets up for another show. To the public, the carnival means exciting performers. To Nick Coster, those performers are "mugs and grifters and riffraff all under one tent." Nick should know. He puts the show together. Humphrey Bogart plays Nick, bringing crisp authority to a movie whose midway atmosphere is so alive you can almost taste the caramel corn. Sylvia Sidney, Eddie Albert and Joan Leslie join Bogart in this tale centered on Nick and an up-and-coming lion tamer (Albert) he discovers. The story, a reworking of 1937's Kid Galahad, is a superb example of how studio-system filmmakers kept successful plotlines rolling. Bogart's career was finally rolling, too. His next film would make him an undisputed star. The title: The Maltese Falcon.

Humphry Bogart plays Roy 'Mad Dog' Earle, an escaped convict who is on the run. With police and the press on his trail, Earle takes refugee among the peaks of the Sierra Madres.

A divorced glamour girl tries to seduce a count, who has set his eyes on her younger sister, to help her avoid going through the same mistake.

After a fall, an independent 75-year-old woman widow is forced to move in with her daughter and struggles to face the future with dignity and hope.

Known for his personification of the Western hero, it was Montana-born Cooper's horse riding skills that first brought him bit parts in movies.