Comedies

Deborah Kerr inherits an estate and three ardent suitors in this zany romantic comedy costarring Robert Walker, Mark Stevens and Peter Lawford. When an old soldier she met during the war leaves her his ranch in Texas, British heiress Alison Kirbe (Kerr)...

A mild-mannered Englishman leading a bus tour across Italy, Stanley Thrumm (David McCallum), wins a fortune at a Riviera casino, making him a target for Carla Moretti (Sylva Koscina), a beautiful adventuress. Convincing he love-struck Stanley to invest...

Until divorce do us part. The solemn institution of marriage gets a swift kick in the pants from two frisky farces that mix sophistication with slapstick. In Merry Wives of Reno, New York society dames head west to shake loose spouses they think are...

Fun's in fashion when Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (plus Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott) enter the ultrachic Parisian world of high fashion in Roberta. The third Astaire/Rogers film is a silky adaptation of the 1933 Broadway hit (whose original cast...

Get Nick! Big shot Steve Case knows only one man can shape up his troubled banana-republic plantation - fireball foreman Nick Butler. But Nick may be a little distracted. He's just met stranded American Lee Donley, a chanteuse who can hold her own at a...

Eddie Cantor, master of music and mirth, stars as Eddie Simpson, put-upon assistant to phony psychic Yolando (Charles Middleton). When Yoldano sets his sights upon A.B. Clark's (Spencer Charters) art deco bakery (Glorifying the American Doughnut), Eddie...

Chorus girl Ethel "Dynamite" Jackson (Doris Day) was shocked and thrilled that the State Department would ask her to come to Paris and represent the U.S. at a theatrical expo. Trouble is, the invite was meant for Ethel Barrymore... and stuffy envoy S...

They were one of the movies most successful and best-loved comic duos, probably because their irresistible slapstick antics were underscored by an indomitable optimism. Beginning with shorts made at the Hal Roach Studios, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy...

If you love music, check into Hollywood Hotel. The story's about a filmland newbie (Dick Powell) caught between a spoiled star (Lola Lane) and her likable look-alike (Lola's sister Rosemary Lane). But the movie's about Busby Berkeley's ace direction -...

Three classic films from the immortal film clown Buster Keaton. PARLOR, BEDROOM AND BATH - One of the first sound films starring Keaton, this film is an uproarious and naughty pre-code farce based on a beloved play by Charles W. Bell and Mark Swan. SPEAK...

Shady sports promoter Mike Conovan (Spencer Tracy) thought he'd made his greatest find in multi-disciplined college phys-ed teacher Pat Pemberton (Katharine Hepburn). However, does he have the answers for her competitive fires going out whenever her...

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,...