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Directed by Richard HaydnOrigin USAGenres ComedyActors Joan Caulfield,
William Holden,
Harry von Zell,
Billy De Wolfe,
Mona Freeman,
Edward ArnoldRating63%
Miriam Wilkins is a teenage girl going door-to-door, trying to get Bill Seacroft, her brother-in-law, elected to the state senate. However, Bill has no idea that Miriam is doing this, and he has no wish to become a senator. He is a middle-aged war veteran who works at a bank. He feels like a loser and is frustrated by having to live with his wife Ruth's family. Bill wants to be more independent and stand on his own two feet., 2h6
Directed by Frank CapraOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Théâtre,
Films based on playsActors James Stewart,
Jean Arthur,
Lionel Barrymore,
Edward Arnold,
Mischa Auer,
Ann MillerRating77%
Successful banker Anthony P. Kirby (Edward Arnold) has just returned from Washington, D.C., where he was effectively granted a government-sanctioned munitions monopoly, which will make him very rich. He intends to buy up a 12-block radius around a competitor's factory to put him out of business, but there is one house that is a holdout to selling. Kirby instructs his real estate broker, John Blakely (Clarence Wilson), to offer a huge sum for the house, and if that is not accepted, to cause trouble for the family. , 1h53
Directed by Billy WilderOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films based on playsActors Humphrey Bogart,
Audrey Hepburn,
William Holden,
Walter Hampden,
Martha Hyer,
John WilliamsRating75%
Sabrina Fairchild (Audrey Hepburn) is the young daughter of the Larrabee family's chauffeur, Thomas, and she has been in love with David Larrabee (William Holden) all her life. David is an oft-married, idle playboy, crazy for women, who has never noticed Sabrina, much to her and the household staff's dismay. , 1h38
Directed by David ButlerOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Musical theatre,
Romantic comedy,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
Musical films,
Films based on plays,
Films based on musicalsActors Doris Day,
Gordon MacRae,
Gene Nelson,
Eve Arden,
S.Z. Sakall,
Billy De WolfeRating64%
Set in the Roaring Twenties, the story centers on Nanette Carter (Doris Day), a Westchester socialite with show business aspirations. She offers to invest $25,000 in a Broadway show if her boyfriend, producer Larry Blair (Billy De Wolfe), casts her in the starring role. What she doesn't realize is Larry is two-timing her with ingenue Beatrice Darcy (Patrice Wymore), whom he envisions as the lead. When he accepts Nanette's offer, she imposes upon her wealthy, penny-pinching uncle, J. Maxwell Bloomhaus (S.Z. Sakall), to lend her the money., 1h39
Directed by Otto PremingerOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
Films based on plays,
Films about virginityActors William Holden,
David Niven,
Maggie McNamara,
Tom Tully,
Tom Tully,
Fortunio BonanovaRating66%
A comedy of manners, the film centers on virtuous actress Patty O'Neill, who meets playboy architect Donald Gresham on the top of the Empire State Building and accepts his invitation to join him for drinks and dinner in his apartment. There she meets Donald's upstairs neighbors, his ex-fiancée Cynthia and her father, roguish David Slater., 1h43
Directed by George Cukor,
Earl BellamyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Films based on playsActors Judy Holliday,
Broderick Crawford,
William Holden,
Howard St. John,
Barbara Brown,
Claire CarletonRating74%
Uncouth tycoon Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford) goes to Washington, D.C. with his brassy girlfriend, Emma "Billie" Dawn (Judy Holliday), and his crooked lawyer, Jim Devery (Howard St. John), to "influence" a politician or two. The lawyer also presses Harry to marry Billie on the grounds that a wife cannot be forced to testify against her husband., 1h54
Directed by Walter LangOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Monde imaginaire,
Théâtre,
Musical films,
Films based on plays,
Films based on musicalsActors Ethel Merman,
Donald O'Connor,
Vera-Ellen,
George Sanders,
Helmut Dantine,
Billy De WolfeRating66%
A wealthy Washington, D.C., socialite, Sally Adams, has political connections and is appointed U.S. ambassador to the tiny country of Lichtenburg, even though nothing in her background qualifies her for the job. A young journalist, Kenneth Gibson, persuades her to let him tag along as her press attache., 1h27
Directed by Don WeisOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Sports films,
Musical films,
Films based on playsActors Jim Backus,
Patty Duke,
Jane Greer,
Warren Berlinger,
Billy De Wolfe,
Charles LaneRating57%
Billie is a 15-year-old girl who is not like every other teen. With her bobbed haircut, tomboyish behavior and passion for track running, she distances herself from her fellow female classmates. Instead, she befriends Mike Benson, the newest school student who has recently joined the school athletic team. She gives him advice on how to run faster, and although he is initially reluctant to be taught, 2h10
Directed by Robert Z. LeonardOrigin USAGenres Drama,
War,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Musical theatre,
Musical,
RomanceThemes Théâtre,
Films based on playsActors Ginger Rogers,
Lana Turner,
Walter Pidgeon,
Van Johnson,
Edward Arnold,
Keenan WynnRating65%
The film focuses on various guests staying at New York City's famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Among them are lonely screen star Irene Malvern, in town with her maid Anna for a childhood friend's wedding and the premiere of her latest movie; war correspondent Chip Collyer, mistaken for a jewel thief by Irene but playing along to catch her attention; flyer Capt. James Hollis, wounded in World War II and facing perilous surgery in three days; wealthy shyster Martin X. Edley, who is trying to sign the Bey of Aribajan to a shady oil deal; Oliver Webson, a cub reporter for Collier's Weekly hoping to expose Edley; and bride-to-be Cynthia Drew, whose upcoming wedding is endangered by her belief her fiancé Bob is in love with Irene Malvern. Also on the scene are Bunny Smith, the hotel's stenographer/notary public, who hopes to escape her low income roots by marrying Edley, and reporter Randy Morton, who loiters in the lobby hoping to stumble upon a scoop for his newspaper.