Comedies

Henry Fonda plays bookish Prof. Tommy Turner struggling to get in touch with his man-of-action side during the weekend of the big football game the arrival of an ex-gridiron star once fancied by his wife and the threatening loss of his tenure.

It isn't a great day for San Francisco cab driver and aspiring rock musician Daniel Pinsky. His first fare of the day just got casually bumped off at a red light. Another hit man took a nosedive while trying to break in Pinsky's upper-story window. Now...

Rosalind Russell and Jack Carson star in this moving comedy about a wife who must raise her family when her husband goes off on wild moneymaking schemes.

One bride, three grooms. Romantic daydreamer Janie (Ginger Rogers) has gotten herself engaged to three eligible guys. Tom (George Murphy) offers reliability. (Nice, but where's the moon-June-swoon?) Dick (Alan Marshal) has money. (Handy, but can a...

Nelson Eddy's rich baritone Eleanor Powell's astonishing footwork and songs by Cole Porter - what more could a musical fan wish for? Rosalie lured huge film audiences with it's knockout blend of top cast and magnificent music.

Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler play a cadet and general's daughter who once shared a Hawaiian fling ' until she said aloha. But three years later they're cast together in the military academy's Hundredth Nite Show, where sweet music and snappy rhythms work...

In this entertaining 1950s musical a trio of sailors and a young singer join a struggling producer to bring a stage flop to Broadway where of course it becomes the hottest show in town.

When cheesecake artist Bob Randolph (Ronald Reagan) is offered $100,000 to appear on TV with the model for his world-famous pinups, he's forced to find a woman who doesn't exist. The best-kept secret in the business, "The Randolph Girl" is actually made...

A trapeze artist falls for a preacher in this romantic drama starring Marion Davies and Clark Gable, based on Margaret Mayo's 1907 play. The circus has come to town and with it aerialist Polly Fisher (Davies), the queen of the air. Distracted during a...

Audiences always roared with delight when Red Skelton went one-on-one with post-war life in the Yellow Cab Man, the Fuller Brush Man and other films. In Half a Hero, the legendary comic took on a slice of 20th-century Americana that still resonates...

Geronimo. Sitting Bull. Crazy Horse. Flapping Eagle. Haven't heard of him? It's time you do: he's a boozed-up lay about on a Southwest reservation who stirs up quite a flap leading the Last Great Indian Uprising. Director Carol Reed (The Third Man) and a...

A fool when it comes to love, Sally Middleton (Eleanor Parker) vows to give up romance and stop getting silly over men. But when her man-eating pal (Eve Arden) ditches Sgt. Bill Page (Ronald Reagan) for a date with a superior officer, Sally feels it's...