Louis Calhern

When 61-year-old Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. arrives in Washington DC in 1902 to take his seat on the Supreme Court, he worries that he may be to old to achieve much. But his wife Fanny will hear no such nonsense: "It's never too late for those who love a good fight, for those who keep on looking ahead!" Fanny is right. Holmes will remain on the Court for 30 years, helping bring about momentous changes in the law of free speech, labor relations and other vital issues. But one thing would never change - the bedrock devotion Holmes and Fanny shared. Louis Calhern reprises his famed Broadway role (earning a 1950 Best Actor Oscar nomination) as the Great Dissenter in this moving, lively and often humorous biography of The Magnificent Yankee.

A gang of small time crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist.

Frisco Jenny Sandoval (Ruth Chatterton) was pregnant by the young man she loved when he died in the 1906 earthquake--before their wedding. Alone, Frisco Jenny gives her baby up for adoption then fends for herself the only way she can--by selling her body, rising to the top of the world's oldest profession. But the son she gave up is now the San Francisco district attorney and leads a crusade to end prostitution in the city. When an underworld associate learns of the relationship and threatens to blackmail the district attorney, Frisco Jenny kills him before he can reveal his secret. And she goes to the gallows, convicted for the murder by her own son, rather than reveal the secret that would destroy him.

Condemned to a prison cell in the impenetrable Chateau D'If, a merchant sailor vows vengeance against the four conspirators who framed him.

Turning to ranch hand Billy Buck for love and support, young Tom Tiflin inadvertently drives his family further apart. When his father gives him a red pony to care for, Tom again turns to Billy for help. Scripted by John Steinbeck, based on his novel "The Red Pony." Aaron Copland composed the film score.

Stewart Granger and Deborah Kerr star in this swashbuckling adaptation of Anthony Hope's classic novel The Prisoner of Zenda. An English tourist (Granger) visiting a small Balkan kingdom looks like a twin of that country's crown prince. When the royal heir is poisoned and then kidnapped in a plot to block his coronation, the tourist is enlisted to double as the prince--saving the man and the country.

During the era of the Roman empire, Brutus and Cassius lead a conspiracy to kill Caesar, only to fall to Mark Antony.

A prince falls in love with a barmaid during his last fling before assuming the crown.

No more loneliness. Shy, plain Ellen Bowker has found unexpected fulfillment as the bride of handsome Dan Pierce. What she doesn't know is that Dan was bought and paid for - he's a "gift" from Ellen's wealthy father, who wants his fatally ill daughter to experience romance before she dies. A story that might have been a three-hanky soaper in lesser hands instead exudes luminous emotion, thanks largely to its two stars. As Dan, Van Johnson captures the guilt and untapped decency of a man who falls in love with the woman he married for money. And Dorothy McGuire, whose gentle charm and beauty are ideal for the role, gives a heartbreaking performance as the wife who finally discovers the stunning truth.

A 1930s romantic drama about a poor yet tight-knit family doing the best they can while living right next door to a very wealthy entrepreneur.

TV's greatest comedy duo, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, star in this madcap comedy about a research chemist whose dedicated pursuit of a new pesticide wreaks havoc on his marriage.

This witty, musical version of The Philadelphia Story stars Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and the jazz master himself, Louis Armstrong, playing the hottest trumpet in the land.

Janet Leigh and Peter Lawford star as lovers trapped on either side of the newly fallen Iron Curtain, a man and a woman stranded on opposite sides of The Red Danube. Post World War II Vienna. In a city that now lies across the river from Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe, British Major John McPhimister (Lawford) works to repatriate war refugees – to reunite families but also to sometimes force displaced people back to their native countries against their will. Now, he falls in love with beautiful ballet dancer Maria Buhlen (Leigh) who is desperately trying to flee Eastern Europe. Bound by duty, honor, and love, will these two find a future together? The Red Danube also features Angela Lansbury as a proud military woman who stands her ground against sexist male colleagues.

A young Kansas girl who comes to New York to make it big in the chorus becomes involved in a love triangle and learns a lesson about show business in this "high class" film from the ribald 1930s. Loretta Young stars as Marion, a gifted songwriter who longs to hit the big time. When she falls in love with Jimmy (David Manners), she follows him to New York and luckily finds a job writing songs for Humphries, a tyrannical producer (Louis Calhern). But Jimmy is engaged to another woman (Helen Vinson) and Humphries has no intention of helping her with her career. She soon finds solace with Tony Travers (George Brent), a doctor whose ordinary life she welcomes with open arms.

Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He's also lovesick when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that she's in love with his best friend Joe.

A pointed political satire, Duck Soup is the Marx Brothers' funniest and most insane film.

Biography of Benevento Cellini, devil May Care prince of goldsmiths, lover and liars, set against the lush richness of the renaissance. Adult comedy.

With help from a reporter, a district attorney tries to find the killer of his predecessor who was murdered while uncovering a massive stock fraud.