Comedies

Anchors Aweigh. On the Town. Hit the Deck. Hollywood has always known what to do with sailors on leave: Give em some pretty girls and some great songs and watch the fans line up to enlist! Hit the Deck hits all the right notes as three sailors (Tony...

The stars come out to play in the joyous World War ll-era Thank Your Lucky Stars. A breezy, behind-the-Hollywood-scenes story about young talents hoping for a big break glitters with specialty numbers featuring Golden Era greats. Highlights include...

In early-20th-century Chicago, music store salesman Andrew Larkin (Van Johnson) got off on the wrong foot with new hire Veronica Fisher (Judy Garland)... and proceeded to remain there. The frosty co-workers, however, also have no idea that they're one...

Teens Jimmy Connors (Mickey Rooney) and Mary Holden (Judy Garland) lift their school's spirits when they update it's stodgy orchestra into a swing band, but can they raise enough cash for the kids to hit the road and compete in front of Paul Whiteman (as...

A showbiz partner often thinks his sidekick is a pain in the neck. Lewis and Clark have lower anatomical opinions of each other. In writer Neil Simon's warm stage-to-screen adaptation, Walter Matthau and George Burns play feuding vaudevillians reteaming...

Unemployed magicians Willie (Bert Wheeler) and Elmer (Robert Woolsey) act as guardian to mischievous orphan Spanky Milford (Spanky McFarland) and head south when the kid inherits a homestead in Kentucky. Little do they know that their journey will take...

Forty-eight-year-old Manhattanite Mel Edison just lost his job. Soon he'll lose his wardrobe, temper, self-respect and maybe his mind. In urban life's grueling guerrilla war, Mel just became The Prisoner of Second Avenue. Adapting his 1971 stage hit,...

After covering a golf tournament in Los Angeles, sportswriter Mike Hagen returns to his New York home with a tan. And with a fashion-designer wife he scarcely knows. Romantic pitfalls surface gleefully in this Vincente Minnelli-directed comedy featuring...

BRAVO say critics about an entertainers tell-all memoir chronicling her days in the cabaret act Barry Nichols and Les Girls. Libel! Cries another of Les Girls, setting in motion a talons- and fact-baring litigation that proves Les Girls will be girls and...

Quintessential Fifties romantic comedy features Frank Sinatra as theater agent Charlie Reader, a hip bachelor whose ways with the women impress his unhappily married best pal and current house guest Joe McCall (David Wayne). Charlie's lifestyle is put to...

You'd think chilled borscht pulses in her veins. She's Ninotchka Yoshenka, a lovely yet severe Soviet envoy sent to Paris to rescue wayward comrades from the perils of champagne and capitalism. But there may be a thaw in Ninotchka's Cold War. She meets...

New York adman Jim Blandings is ready to say goodbye to his cramped city apartment and build, from the ground up, a Connecticut home with room enough for his growing family and dreams. All it will cost him is his time and money and perhaps his job,...