Comedies

Bill Chandler (William Powell) is one of America's great anglers, a sports fisherman without peer, doom in waders to the wiliest trout. And that isn't the only fish story Chandler tells. Four of Hollywood's greatest stars - Powell, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy...

Ten dollars a pound is the going rate for freight, so charter pilot Steve Collins figures he's owed $1,150, cash on delivery. His cargo is Joan Winfield, an heiress whose elopement with a musician is kiboshed when Steve kidnaps her so he can fly her to...

In the Good Old Summertime - a tale of squabbling music-shop clerks who don't know they're romantic pen pals - shares a celebrated movie lineage that includes James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan in The Shop Around the Corner and Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in...

Garbo Talks! Proclaimed ads when silent star Greta Garbo debuted in talkies. Nine years and 12 classic screen dramas later, the gifted movie legend was ready for another change. Garbo Laughs! #cheered the publicity for her first comedy, a frothy tale of...

The canneries stand empty now that the sardines have abandoned the waters, but life continues on the Row. Here you'll find Doc (Nick Nolte), a marine biologist and community mentor; Suzy (Debra Winger), a good-hearted newcomer gone astray; and Mack,...

Julie Andrews and James Garner star in a black comedy about honor, cowardice and unexpected heroism written by Paddy Chayefsky. Stationed in London during World War II, American Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Madison (Garner) has become an expert in...

Candy magnate and car nut Michael Bannon (Michael Sarrazin) gathered an eccentric pack of fellow motorheads in a Manhattan garage, and laid down a challenge: See who'd be the first to finish a clandestine cross-country race to Los Angeles, with no speed...

Kittenish teens Patti (Jane Powell) and Melba (Debbie Reynolds) turn a 1900s family vacation in the Catskills into Two Weeks with Love, a bright entertainment that may come as a surprise to those who think there is nothing new under the musical sun (The...

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 barely knows. Romantic pitfalls surface gleefully in this Vincente Minnelli-directed comedy featuring an...

Enchanting M-G-M musical treat has late, great showman Florenz Ziegfeld (William Powell) looking down from heaven and envisioning an assortment of the greatest song-and-dance spectaculars ever committed to film. Selections include "A Pretty Girl Is Like...

Pert and precocious Nancy Barklay (Jane Powell) is up for the leading role in a Broadway musical set in Brazil, but her seasoned stage-star mother, Frances (Ann Sothern), thinks she's got the part! A sticky situation becomes impossibly complicated after...

A husband-and-wife songwriting team (Robert Young and Ann Sothern) sure know how to turn out the hits, from Lady Be Good to The Last Time I Saw Paris. But when it comes to marriage, they can't seem to hit anything but sour notes. Red Skelton, Eleanor...