Comedies

Perhaps best known for her portrayal of intrepid reporter Torchy Blane in a series of films, the great Glenda Farrell was an indispensable member of the Warner Bros. Stock company of players. More "the girl from down the block" than "the girl next door,"...

An inept criminal gang plans a daring train robbery in this hilarious Euro-comic caper starring Raquel Welch, Robert Wagner and Edward G. Robinson. When deported Chicago mobster Cesare Celli (Vittorio de Sica) is kidnapped by five amateur thieves...

Gregory La Cava directs Mary Astor in this wise and witty drawing-room war of the sexes, in which manners never falter while scandal simmers at the surface. Mrs. Nancy Gibson (Astor), on a return cruise to the States after a long absence, makes the...

Returning to America for the first time since infancy-and wanting to keep fortune hunters at arm's length-heiress Dorothy Hunter (Miriam Hopkins) opts to swap identities with personal secretary Sylvia Lockwood (Fay Wray). After being flirted with by...

The inimitable Edna May Oliver takes over both trial and deliberations in this effervescent legal comedy-drama. When society dame Yvette Gordon (Jill Esmond) stands accused of shooting her sugar-daddy husband, it appears that the French chorus-girl gold...

Groucho Marx's last leading role sees him deploying all his patented patter and double-talk as a Navy lifer out to save a pal from his "inherited" racehorse. Navy seaman Benny Linn (Marx) is flabbergasted when his pal, Navy seaman Tim Dunnovan (William...

Celebrated womens novelist Ken Bixby (Warren William) has made his fortune understanding women, but he's ill-prepared when a forgotten flame (Genevieve Tobin) returns, prepared to scorch his fame and reputation with the consummation of her purple passion...

Neer-do-well, peripatetic playboy Larry OBrien (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) gets ejected from one Latin American country only to land hip-deep in romance and intrigue in it's neighbor. While deciding where to wreak havoc next post-deportation, Larry catches...

The guy is Edmond OBrien, playing Steve, a shy shipping magnate. The girl is Lucille Ball, playing Dot, a down-to-earth, bright-as-a-penny executive assistant. The gob (sailor slang for swabbie) is George Murphy, playing Coffee Cup, a light-on-his-feet...

Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell team up to play a pair of gold diggers with hearts of gold in this tale of manicurists on the run from the mob. When Rosie Sturges (Blondell, Blonde Crazy) loses her diamond engagement ring from mobster Dynamite Carson...

Following the success of Classic Musical Shorts from the Dream Factory, comes this rollicking volume of mostly musical shorts produced by MGM. Two-reel Technicolor extravaganzas, one-reel earthy "tabloid musicals," showstopping MGM revues and more are...

Separated from the rest of his retreating regiment, Tarasconi (Umberto Orsini), a private with the Italian forces during World War I, comes across an Austrian general (Rod Steiger) and captures him. Dreaming of the riches he will receive from the...