Joan Blondell

This crackling mystery thriller stars Joan Blondell as a private duty nurse who gets herself mixed up in a murder investigation. Miss Adams has an unusual eye for detail, so when a police detective sends her undercover to solve a puzzling murder case, she unravels a complex plot, risking her life while she's at it.

A Broadway director faces cutthroat competition and other complications as he transitions to producing musical numbers for the new talking pictures.

What's a chorine to do after her show flops? Become a gold digger! The cuties do so en masse as the Gold Diggers of 1937, kicking Depression Era blues in the keester. Dick Powell plays an insurance agent with musical ambitions, Joan Blondell is a showgirl who gives up spangles for a stenographer's pad and … well, who watches any Diggers for its plot? Instead, watch as dance creator Busby Berkeley turns a garden party into a tap-happy romp. Blondell leads leggy soldiers in a banner-waving, precision-formation "All's Fair in Love and War" spectacle that's Berkeley at his showy best as Powell croons a lullaby, "With Plenty of Money and You." In short, there are plenty of reasons to watch again and again.

In director William A. Wellman's engrossing drama starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joan Blondell, and Clark Gable, a nurse discovers that the children she's caring for are murder targets. Lora Hart is an ambitious student nurse whose first assignment after graduation is tending to a couple of deathly ill little girls. Despite their posh surroundings, the girls are apparently suffering from malnutriti...

"Gable's back and Garson's got him!" So went one of film's most famous ad lines, welcoming home the movie icon and World War II veteran to share an Adventure with glorious Greer Garson. As a rough-hewn merchant marine, Gable reprises his most popular film persona, the wisecracking man's man who loves 'em and leaves 'em – until the right dame comes along. Garson is the dame, or, in this case, lady – a librarian who finds nothing in the Dewey Decimal System about how to domesticate 6'1" of brawn and bravado. Victor Fleming directs, Joan Blondell plays a been-there blonde who catches Gable's eye and Thomas Mitchell adds pathos as a sailor who makes and breaks a deal with God.

"If you want to live, you must follow the tranquil existence of an oyster," the eminent cardiologist warns his terrified patient. "No excitement and no women. One kiss and you die!" Mon Dieu! No kissing? That's the kiss of death for ladies' man Toto Duryea. And especially now, when he's found the woman who has won his heart forever. Too bad that heart is one sick ticker. Vaudeville and stage star Frank Fay portrays Toto in this jaunty pre-Code bedroom farce set in Paris and directed by the legendary Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, Life With Father). Vivacious kewpie doll Joan Blondell and flapper femme fatale Louise Brooks are among former lovers who rush to Toto's bedside eager to provide comfort. But he rejects them all for a hard-to-get American beauty (Laura LaPlante) whose lips have touched his only once. And oh how he longs to repeat the experience. Will Toto give his life for one more heavenly smooch?

Half-breed rodeo champ returns to the reservation to help his people prove they can be responsible.

HD. Gena Rowlands is a renowned actress who teeters on the edge of a breakdown as she counts down the days toward a big Broadway opening.

Based on the Broadway play by Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr, Desk Set represents the eighth screen teaming of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Hepburn plays the head of a TV network research department; Tracy plays an efficiency expert, hired to modernize Hepburn's operation.

To save her fortune from her greedy nephew who is trying to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, Matilda Reed must locate her three long-lost adopted sons in time for a Christmas Eve reunion.

Este documental se centra en el icónico Steve McQueen, un actor reconocido por sus películas y su inevitable caída del mundo del espectáculo.

When a charming con man is mistaken for an infamous gunfighter, he decides to impersonate the gunfighter so he can earn money to pay his debts.

Three stories about domestic violence are woven together to create a diverse portrait of women coping with abuse at the hands of their husbands.

A couple researching a long-dead Hollywood star finds their marriage creeping towards trouble when the husband becomes obsessed with the dead actress.

Complications arise, when a black actor tries to make a movie with an all-black cast but, to make it, he is forced to borrow money from the Mafia.

Jean Simmons, Paul Douglas and Anthony Franciosa star in producer Joe Pasternak's delightful production which was called "the kind of movie audiences hunger for but all too infrequently get". Anne Leeds (Simmons) is a schoolteacher looking for part-time work. She lands a job as a secretary at a nightclub, working for two partners: Rocco (Douglas), a nice, decent type of guy who has Anne's best interests at heart, and Tony (Franciosa), a handsome swinger for whom Anne falls, much to Rocco's chagrin. Adding a bit of spice – and some musical entertainment – to the story are Joan Blondell, Julie Wilson, J. Carrol Naish, ZaSu Pitts and more in supporting roles.