Aline MacMahon

The setting: a gas station in the middle of a sweltering, desiccated nowhere. The women: Olga (Aline MacMahon), a wary, weathered loner with a knack for fixing cars, and Myra (Ann Dvorak), her pretty kid sister who dishes up diner chow and dreams of romance. The film: Heat Lightning, an edgy, femme prenoir that turns incendiary when visitors arrive – two bejeweled divorcees and Olga's old love, a killer on the lam. Guiding a cast that also includes Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot, Glenda Farrell, Ruth Donnelly, FrankMcHugh and Jane Darwell, Mervyn LeRoy (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang) ramps up pre-Code wisecracking and vise-like tension into an emotional wallop of an ending.

An American soldier saves a war orphan from a desperate life on the streets of post-WWII Europe.

This classic story about high school boys coming of age in a small, NewEngland town, features early screen legends Wallace Beery, LionelBarrymore and Mickey Rooney.

Three chorus girls fight to keep their show going and find rich husbands.

The lives of a Chinese village are turned Upside down when the Japanese invade it. A heroic young Chinese woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against Japanese Invaders.

When a cruel and manipulative young woman moves in with her fiancee's family, she creates chaos in what was previously a calm, loving environment.

Raw-boned, raspy-voiced, sixty-something Letitia "Tish" Carberry (Marjorie Main, who would find her greatest fame in the Ma Kettle film series) comes back to her hometown with a baby in her arms. "I'm a woman. It's a baby. It's mine!" she declares. Three splendid character actresses – Main, Zasu Pitts and Aline MacMahon – play three delightful spinsters in Tish, based on stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart. The old dears try their hands at matchmaking, get everything in a dreadful muddle, and end up caring for an orphaned baby they mistakenly believe is illegitimate. This warm comedy is laced with drama and punctuated with plenty of sight gags, including Main roller-skating in her Sunday best and the three stars tangling with a disgruntled bear on a camping trip.

In the early 1900's Tennessee, a family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden death. The widow and her young son must endure the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from the ashes to face the hope of renewed life.

Directed by Academy Award-winner Lee Grant, this madcap, yet heartfelt 1975 comedy about success and failure is built on wonderfully ridiculous situations and uproarious dialogue.

A man sets out to avenge his brother's death and runs up against a gang selling weapons to an Apache tribe.

A racketeer terrorizes a small fishing community until he falls in love with a fisherman's daughter.