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- DirectorVincent ShermanStarsClark GableAva GardnerBroderick CrawfordEx-President Andrew Jackson sends Texan Devereaux Burke back home on a mission to facilitate Sam Houston's drive for U.S. statehood.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsRobert TaylorDenise DarcelHope EmersonA trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently begun settling there.
- DirectorTay GarnettStarsStewart GrangerWalter PidgeonDavid NivenRetired British general Brunswick reminisces about the days when he was a colonel in charge of a British Army battalion fighting against native rebels in colonial India during the late 1800s.
- DirectorAndrew MartonStarsStewart GrangerWendell CoreyCyd CharisseIn the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime, and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West Mounted Police.
- DirectorArthur PiersonStarsJeffrey LynnDonald CrispMarjorie ReynoldsAfter failing to be re-elected, politician Blake Washburn returns home and becomes editor of the local newspaper. When he notices the influence the paper has on the public, he uses it to appeal to potential voters in the next election.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsAudie MurphyBill MauldinDouglas DickTruncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle.
- DirectorMelvin FrankNorman PanamaStarsFred MacMurrayDorothy McGuireHoward KeelTwo marketing professionals hire a lookalike of classic Western actor Smoky Callaway to impersonate the actor and make new films, but things go awry when the real Callaway, thought long missing, returns.
- DirectorClarence BrownDon HartmanJohn SturgesStarsEthel BarrymoreKeefe BrasselleGary CooperComprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best directors, screenwriters and actors; it is narrated by Louis Calhern.
- DirectorRichard BrooksStarsStewart GrangerPier AngeliGeorge SandersAfter a professional art thief steals a religious painting from an Italian museum, he tries to cheat his partner by claiming the painting was accidentally destroyed but his suspicious partner and the police are determined to find it.
- DirectorRobert PiroshStarsVan JohnsonLane NakanoGeorge MikiThe story of Japanese-American soldiers who fought in Europe during World War II.
- DirectorGottfried ReinhardtStarsVan JohnsonDorothy McGuireRuth RomanA millionaire tries to buy his dying daughter a husband.
- DirectorFred M. WilcoxStarsRalph MeekerNancy ReaganJames WhitmoreBurt served in the Marines during the war, but now he is confined to an asylum. His experiences in the South Pacific left him mentally ill and deathly afraid of storm clouds and rain. Stella, his girl friend, hopes Burt's sister Betty, and his brother-in-law Lou, will take him in so as to help him recuperate. However because of their young children, Betty and Lou are afraid of inviting him to live with them. Can Burt be helped? How can he find a life outside the mental hospital?
- DirectorDon WeisStarsJanet LeighPeter LawfordLewis StoneMark MacLene owes the IRS, the banks, and others a lot of money. The problem is that his trust makes $1,000,000 a year, but he spends $150,000 every month. His trustee Sam uses the power of attorney and the spendthrift clause to hire frugal Lucille Duncan to manage Mark's finances. Presented with thousands of dollars for gifts and charges from the previous night, she immediately cancels his charge accounts and returns as many gifts as she can. Then she puts Mark on a allowance of $50 a week, which upsets him even more. To get rid of Lucy, Mark moves in with her and makes sure that her boyfriend Tom receives a huge raise, thinking that Tom will marry Lucy and free him from her tight control.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsJune AllysonVan JohnsonGig YoungEric Wainwright (Van Johnson), a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter (June Allyson), a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When she learns that Wainwright is auditioning young musicians for a children's concert tour, Cynthia dons braces and bobby sox and passes herself off as a child prodigy.
- DirectorHarold F. KressStarsPalPaul KellyBruce CowlingAn intrepid dog comes to the rescue when a boy's life is put at risk by the greed inflamed by a gold strike.
- DirectorHarold F. KressStarsBarry SullivanArlene DahlGeorge MurphyAn insurance lawyer unhappy with his rate of company advancement becomes a middleman in deals to recover stolen property from the Mob, thus earning a nice living. But his actions attract police attention and set him up for a double-cross.
- DirectorFletcher MarkleStarsRay MillandJohn HodiakNancy ReaganBerkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.
- DirectorDon HartmanStarsLana TurnerEzio PinzaMarjorie MainA beautiful romance between a singer and a persistent prince
- DirectorMelvin FrankNorman PanamaStarsEzio PinzaJanet LeighMillard MitchellAn Italian opera singer (Ezio Pinza) has a marriage of convenience with an innocent fan (Janet Leigh) from Mississippi
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsClark GableRicardo MontalbanJohn HodiakTrapper Flint Mitchell and other mountain men from the Rendezvous join forces to enter virgin trapping territory but must contend with a resentful Blackfoot chief.
- DirectorCharles WaltersStarsEsther WilliamsRed SkeltonHoward KeelA showmen team is mistaken for a cattle baron and his sister.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsPaul DouglasJanet LeighKeenan WynnThe Pittsburgh Pirates' brash and abusive manager receives the help of an angel to win games and become a better person in the process.
- DirectorAnthony MannStarsDick PowellPaula RaymondAdolphe MenjouA New York City detective, traveling by train between New York and Baltimore, tries to foil an on-board plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln before he reaches Baltimore to give a major pre-Inauguration speech in 1861.
- DirectorGerald MayerStarsDavid BrianArlene DahlBarry SullivanRip MacCool has learned early in life that "money talks" and after he arrives in San Francisco, he has no qualms about being ruthless in business, and his first fast-deal bilks Ada Stritch out of her hotel. A combination of shrewd deals and playing the stock market builds him a financial empire. He marries Lily Douvane, who presents him with a child, but Lily has some ambitions of her own and leaves him, taking a sizable chunk of his money on the way out. He soon marries Zoe Carnot, his son's nurse, loses and wins a fortune again, but sinks into gloom when Zoe dies giving childbirth. He keeps piling up the money and he soon has most of it in San Francisco, and there is about to be a run on the bank, operated by Ada Stritch, and the city and its citizens face ruin. Rip puts up his fortune against the bank and a hand of cards dictates winner-takes-all.
- DirectorDon WeisStarsKeefe BrasselleSally ForrestLionel BarrymoreA cub reporter finagled a fake front page showing a dying professor's plan for civic reform.
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsJane PowellDanielle DarrieuxWendell CoreyJim Stauton Rogers, a Texas rancher turned international diplomat, takes his young daughter, Elizabeth Rogers, on a trip to Paris. He is concerned that his daughter might come in contact with her mother, Marie Devarone, a Parisian singer he met and loved more than twenty-five years ago.
- DirectorFletcher MarkleStarsJoseph CottenBarbara StanwyckLouis CalhernIn 1848 NYC, a Frenchwoman visits exiled former French Marshal Thevenet to ask for his financial help in behalf of his French grandson but Thevenet's house staff schemes to kill him and take his fortune.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsWalter PidgeonMargaret LeightonRobert BeattyWith a ruthless gang terrorizing London, Scotland Yard calls Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond out of retirement. With the help of detective Helen Smith, Drummond infiltrates the gang under an assumed name. He and Smith become trusted gang-members until the gang's overlord discovers their true identities, and they are taken as prisoners.
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsSpencer TracyPat O'BrienDiana LynnJim Curtayne, formerly a successful defense attorney who is now a recovering alcoholic, attempts a comeback when he defends a neighbor's son facing a homicide charge.
- DirectorEdwin H. KnopfStarsGreer GarsonMichael WildingFernando LamasA beguiling international jewel thief loses her heart.
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsEthel BarrymoreMaurice EvansAngela LansburyMary Herries (Ethel Barrymore) has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One day she meets a strange young painter named Harry Springer Elcott (Maurice Evans), who uses his painting skill to enter into her life. Little does she expect that his only interest in her is to covet everything she has.
- DirectorLászló KardosStarsMickey RooneySally ForrestWilliam DemarestDrummer Stanley Maxton moves to Los Angeles with dreams of opening his own club, but falls in with a gangster and a nightclub dancer and ends up accused of murder.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyAnthony MannStarsRobert TaylorDeborah KerrLeo GennAfter fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
- DirectorCharles WaltersStarsFred AstaireVera-EllenMarjorie MainPlayboy Charlie Hill meets beautiful Angela Bonfils, a mission house worker in the Bowery. He genuinely falls in love, so, dedicated to winning her over, Charlie cleans up his act and even gets a job as a driver to impress her.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsMario LanzaAnn BlythDorothy KirstenThis film traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera's patrons. Caruso is unacceptable to both women's fathers: to Musetta's because he sings; to Dorothy's because he is a peasant. To New York patricians, Caruso is short, barrel-chested, loud, emotional, and unrefined. Their appreciation comes slowly. The film depicts Caruso's lament that "the man does not have the voice, the voice has the man": he cannot be places he wants to be, because he must be elsewhere singing, including the day his mother dies. Throughout, Mario Lanza and stars from the Met sing.
- DirectorStanley DonenStarsLarry ParksElizabeth TaylorJosephine HutchinsonDancing teacher Anastacia "Stacie" Macaboy (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) falls in love with smart theatre agent Jud Parker (Larry Parks). He likes her too, just not enough to give up his exciting bachelor life. So she plans to set a trap for him.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsGene KellyLeslie CaronOscar LevantThree friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsKathryn GraysonAva GardnerHoward KeelThe daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairy tale romance is threatened after his luck turns sour.
- DirectorRoy RowlandBuster KeatonEdward SedgwickStarsRed SkeltonSally ForrestMacdonald CareyJoe, an inventor in an American small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car driven with a gasoline motor. Everybody is making fun about his "crazy invention", and only his girlfriend believes in him. When he's halfway successful, another woman tries to win his heart, and his girlfriend thinks he has quit on her. But in a race for those new horse-less vehicles, he gets in trouble and only his former girlfriend is able to help him.
- DirectorGerald MayerStarsWalter PidgeonJohn HodiakAudrey TotterDuring the 1950s, a small-town newspaper editor and a state assistant attorney-general fight corrupt local officials from one rotten county.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsWalter PidgeonAnn HardingBarry SullivanAn attorney successfully defends a young hoodlum charged with murder but later has doubts about his client's innocence and starts investigating his background and associations.