Una Merkel

In a series of episodic vignettes, pioneering director D.W. Griffith explores the life and turbulent times of the 16th President of the United States.

A master criminal tries to stay one step ahead of a determined detective while terrorizing the occupants of an isolated country mansion.

A young Kansas girl who comes to New York to make it big in the chorus becomes involved in a love triangle and learns a lesson about show business in this "high class" film from the ribald 1930s. Loretta Young stars as Marion, a gifted songwriter who longs to hit the big time. When she falls in love with Jimmy (David Manners), she follows him to New York and luckily finds a job writing songs for Humphries, a tyrannical producer (Louis Calhern). But Jimmy is engaged to another woman (Helen Vinson) and Humphries has no intention of helping her with her career. She soon finds solace with Tony Travers (George Brent), a doctor whose ordinary life she welcomes with open arms.

Lee Tracy, the actor who makes a delightful specialty of playing motormouthed manipulators and flimflammers (including Hildy Johnson in Broadway's original The Front Page and slick publicity man "Space" Hanlon in Jean Harlow's Bombshell), stars in the pre-code comedy Clear All Wires! He portrays Buckley Joyce Thomas, brash foreign correspondent of the Chicago Globe. Bounced from a Moscow assignment for "conduct unbecoming a gentleman," Buckley and his right-hand man Lefty (James Gleason) set in motion a plot to get their jobs back by staging a high-level assassination attempt and scooping the world a plan that spins wildly out of control. Working from their Broadway play, Bella and Samuel Spewack provide the movie adaptation. They would rework the play for composer Cole Porter's stage hit Leave It to Me! Perhaps most significantly, they would reunite with Porter for the timeless Kiss Me, Kate.

Academy Award. winner Geraldine Page stars as the spinster Alma. Laurence Harvey is Doctor John Buchanan, the handsome young man Alma has loved since childhood. But when a sultry vamp appears (Rita Moreno), the doctor falls hard, descending into a seamy nightlife and leaving Alma's dreams behind like forgotten embers.

Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour once again hit the Road to comedy, and this time the boys are in hot water as guests of honor at a cannibal feast in the darkest heart of Africa.

A man is torn between his criminal life as a masked bandit and his other life as a law-abiding citizen whose wife is suffering his deception.

A Boston family moves to a dilapidated cottage after losing their fortune.

Golden-Globe nominated and Emmy Award-winning Tony Randall ("Pillow Talk," TV's "The Odd Couple") plays Lorenzo Charlton, a stuffy tax investigator sent to the farm of Pop Larkin (Paul Douglas) and Ma Larkin (Una Merkel) to find out why they haven't been paying taxes. He discovers that the Larkins, instead of money, use a homegrown barter system. Overwhelmed by their complex economic network, Lorenzo drinks one home brew too many. Awakening from a hangover, he sees a vision of loveliness before him -- the Larkin's spunky daughter Mariette (Debbie Reynolds). Enraptured by Mariette, he decides to stick around and find a way to get the family out of their onerous tax burden. George Marshall ("How the West Was Won," "Destry Rides Again") directs this breezy romantic comedy.

Boozing children's author Greg Rawlings (Van Johnson), known as Uncle Bump, enlists the help of illustrator Martha Terryton (June Allyson), who is appalled by his womanizing ways and seeming hatred for kids. She threatens to tell the world he's a fraud, so he pretends to be a widower and the father of a troubled son (Butch Jenkins) in a scheme cooked up by his publisher (Hume Cronyn). Martha believes the story and tries to help him -- until she finds out the truth.

Twins separated at birth reunite, then switch places to try and get their parents back together.

When bookie Duke Bradley reluctantly accepts the deed to his friend Frank Clayton's horse farm out of fondness for him, he takes on far more than he ever expected! At the height of an important race -- just after his daughter Carol (Jean Harlow--Dinner at Eight) returns from a long stay in Europe -- Frank Clayton dies of a heart attack. Duke (Clark Gable--Gone with the Wind) offers to forgive the debt. Carol's fiancé, millionaire Hartley Madison (Walter Pidgeon), offers to cover the debt, but Carol vows to repay the loan to Duke herself before she marries, through her own talent as a race handicapper. Although frequently at odds, Duke and Carol fall in love as they travel from track to track on the "racing special" train. Starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow, in her last screen role.

Eli Wakefield (Burt Lancaster) and his son are Kentucky adventurers longing for life on the Texas frontier. They learn, however, that their greatest challenge lies not in the uncharted wilderness, but in the people they meet along the way.