Mary Wickes

Audiences always roared with delight when Red Skelton went one-on-one with post-war life in The Yellow Cab Man, The Fuller Brush Man and other films. In Half a Hero, the legendary comic took on a slice of 20th-century Americana that still resonates today: the suburbs. Red plays Ben Dobson, a magazine writer whose boss approves of Ben because he lives in a cramped Manhattan apartment instead of "the slums of tomorrow": the 'burbs. So, of course, when Ben movies his family to a sprawling housing development, he struggles (hilariously_ to keep the fact a secret. Jean Hagen, a year after her iconic portrayal of the itsy-voiced screen siren in Singin' in the Rain, plays Ben's long-suffering wife, and singer Polly Bergen makes a guest appearance with a torrid nightclub-scene rendition of "Love."

A bus trip for the girls of St. Francis Academy in Pennsylvania takes a radical detour on its way to an interfaith youth rally in California.

Madcap comedy about a woman with two lovers, one of whom finds out about the other and poses as a villain in an unstoppable chase to corner him.

Molly McCue gets a chance to fulfill her dream of becoming a detective when the urn containing the ashes of her departed grandfather is stolen.

Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance reunite in this tale of a woman whose call to the President for a local project leads to chaos when he comes for dinner.

A low-rent lounge singer is forced to hide out from the mob in a convent.

After befriending runaway sea monster Sigmund, two boys try to lead normal lives while keeping their adventures with their new friend a secret.

Two goofballs try to run a beaten-down old amusement park, but problems arise when gangsters come to collect on some gambling debt.

Two talented song-and-dance men (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business.

A Reverend Mother faces an uphill battle to reform a pair of young, hard-to-reach troublemakers who’ve been wreaking havoc on her convent school.

After the critical and commercial success of The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, the Walt Disney Pictures animation studio embarked on their most serious and ambitious animated feature to date with this adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel Notre Dame de Paris.

The stars come out when the night shimmers like this! Young lovers Doris Day and Gordon MacRae return in a moonlit sequel to On Moonlight Bay. Rosemary DeCamp, Mary Wickes and Billy Gray rejoin them in this remembrance of World War I-era Americana. There's a new array of nine nostalgic standards – and a new emphasis on production numbers. Doris and Gordon spin through the Winfield kitchen to "A...

A small-town tomboy falls for the boy-next-door in the years before World War I.

Songwriter Gus Kahn fights to make his name, then has to fight again to survive the Depression.

Based on Carrie Fisher's best-selling novel this box-office smash hit is a poignantly funny movie starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine

An ambitious young woman informs her father of her dream of becoming an actress. Against her father's wishes but supported by her mother, she moves to New York determined to become a success.

While on their dream vacation at an ancient castle, the Otis family encounters the ghost of its former owner desperate to be released from a curse.

Deloris goes back undercover to try to save a troubled inner-city school.

Three ghosts play pranks on a couple and their teenage son renting a house in New England.