Known for Costume & Make-Up
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mel Berns (September 27, 1897 - May 7, 1977) was an American make-up artist. He was the Head of Makeup at RKO Pictures for more than twenty years. Berns began his career in the entertainment industry while working as an agent at the William Morris Agency. Later he became the Head of Makeup at RKO Pictures for more than twenty years, creating the makeup for Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers and Katharine Hepburn's screentest. He was a lifelong friend of Ginger Rogers, who makes ample reference to their friendship in her autobiography: Ginger: My Story. He worked extensively in television after leaving RKO, notably the Perry Mason series. "The crew is giving it the best of Hollywood's techniques," Burr told columnist Erskine Johnson. The crew included veteran make-up artist Berns. The baseball player Babe Ruth had severe scarring from acne on his face. Mel Berns developed makeup for Ruth so that Ruth could feel more comfortable in public. A picture of Ruth and Berns shows Ruth in a smock and Berns applying makeup to his face. The picture is autographed to Berns by Babe Ruth.
Born
September 27, 1897
Died
May 7, 1977 (age 79)
Birthplace
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Filmography
179 films, 4 shows


The Girl Most Likely
1958 · 1h 38m
country: United States
Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however, is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing development. He proposes and Dodie accepts. Dodie next meets Pete, who she thinks is rich, but she soon finds out that he is just a boat mechanic. They have fun on their date and Pete proposes and Dodie accepts. Then Dodie meets Neil Patterson who is rich. They go to Mexico on his yacht and have fun on their date. Neil proposes and Dodie accepts. Now she has to choose.


Bundle of Joy
1956 · 1h 38m
country: United States
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the steps of the foundling home and the folks inside mistake her for the mother. Fisher, well-meaning, but obtuse, tries to help her out with the baby, and the buds of romance begin to appear. Meanwhile old Merlin, the owner of the store, thinks he just might be a grandfather...


Slightly Scarlet
1956 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol "Solly" Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. Seductive Dorothy will do anything to get what she wants, which includes having a good time with Ben-- whom June is now in love with.


The Conqueror
1956 · 1h 51m
country: United States
Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai. Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan.


Tennessee's Partner
1955 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duchess, madam of a thinly-disguised bordello, and no other friends at all. But he's saved from murder by a lonesome cowpoke ('My friends call me Cowpoke'), in town to meet his fiancée Goldie on the steamboat. When she arrives, there's a mysterious undercurrent between Goldie and Tennessee, whose newfound friendship with Cowpoke is destined to be severely tried...


Pearl of the South Pacific
1955 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Two beachcombers with a yacht join woman-with-a-past Rita on a quest for black pearls on a secret island. Arrived, they find another white man has made himself high priest; but George, the latter's handome son, is fair game for Rita, who lands in the guise of a missionary! The inevitable conflict over the pearls brings violence and corruption to the quiet island.


The Phenix City Story
1955 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.


Son of Sinbad
1955 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Legendary pirate and adventurer Sinbad is in single-minded pursuit of two things: beautiful women and a substance called Greek Fire--an early version of gunpowder.


A Bullet for Joey
1955 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction, balks when he learns what is at stake and helps Leduc out instead.


Underwater!
1955 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Two scuba divers find a shipwreck which may contain undiscovered treasure, however, their attempt to salvage it is threatened by scavengers.


Susan Slept Here
1954 · 1h 38m
country: United States
On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant Maizel. Knowing Christopher is working on a juvenile delinquent script, the sergeant brings by delinquent Susan thinking she will inspire Christopher while providing a place for her to spend the holidays outside of juvenile hall.


Dangerous Mission
1954 · 1h 15m
country: United States
A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.


She Couldn't Say No
1954 · 1h 29m
country: United States
An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town.


Devil's Canyon
1953 · 1h 32m
country: United States
An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun.


Second Chance
1953 · 1h 22m
country: United States
A prize-fighting boxer with a lethal right punch falls for a gangster's moll on the run in Mexico.


Affair with a Stranger
1953 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Depicts the rocky marriage of a young model and her Broadway playwright-husband.


Split Second
1953 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test.


The Hitch-Hiker
1953 · 1h 11m
country: United States
Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no longer useful, he'll kill again. The two friends plot an escape, but the hitchhiker's peculiar physical affliction, an eye that never closes even when he sleeps, makes it impossible for them to tell when they can make a break for it.


Angel Face
1953 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.


Blackbeard, the Pirate
1952 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.


Androcles and the Lion
1952 · 1h 38m
country: United States
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values. Pascal’s final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. He’s ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.


The Lusty Men
1952 · 1h 53m
country: United States
Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers of this rough sport.


One Minute to Zero
1952 · 1h 45m
country: United States
An idealistic United Nations official learns the harrowing truth about war when she falls in love with an American officer charged with the evacuation of civilians. As hostilities escalate, the officer and his small detachment are left to hold the line until allied forces can be brought into action.


Beware, My Lovely
1952 · 1h 17m
country: United States
A psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely widow.


The Big Sky
1952 · 2h 13m
country: United States
Two tough Kentucky mountaineers join a trading expedition from St. Louis up the Missouri River to trade whisky for furs with the Blackfoot Indians. They soon discover that there is much more than the elements to contend with.


Clash by Night
1952 · 1h 45m
country: United States
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.


The Half-Breed
1952 · 1h 21m
country: United States
An Apache of mixed blood tries to make peace between Indians and whites.


At Sword's Point
1952 · 1h 21m
country: United States
France, 1648: Richelieu and Louis XIII are dead, the new king is a minor, and the Duc de Lavalle is in virtually open rebellion, scheming to seize power. As a last resort, Queen Anne summons the heirs of the original Musketeers to her aid...including Claire, daughter of Athos, who when she chooses can miraculously pass as a boy, and wields as fine a sword as any. All their skills will be needed for a battle against increasing odds. One for all and all for one! Written by Rod Crawford


Macao
1952 · 1h 21m
country: United States
Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he mislead the bad guys and still woo the attractive singer/petty crook, Julie Benson?


A Girl in Every Port
1952 · 1h 26m
country: United States
After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more complicated.


The Las Vegas Story
1952 · 1h 28m
country: United States
When newlyweds visit Las Vegas, the wife's shady past comes to the surface.


On Dangerous Ground
1951 · 1h 22m
country: United States
A big-city cop is reassigned to the country after his superiors find him too angry to be an effective policeman. While on his temporary assignment he assists in a manhunt of a suspected murderer.


Two Tickets to Broadway
1951 · 1h 46m
country: United States
A young woman (Janet Leigh) leaves her small hometown in Vermont and travels to New York City with hopes of becoming a Broadway star.


The Racket
1951 · 1h 28m
country: United States
The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman, Johnson, take on the violent Nick.


Behave Yourself!
1951 · 1h 21m
country: United States
A young man takes in a dog that turns out to be wanted by mobsters.


Flying Leathernecks
1951 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Major Daniel Kirby takes command of a squadron of Marine fliers just before they are about to go into combat. While the men are well meaning, he finds them undisciplined and prone to always finding excuses to do what is easy rather than what is necessary. The root of the problem is the second in command, Capt. Carl 'Griff' Griffin. Griff is the best flier in the group but Kirby finds him a poor commander who is not prepared to make the difficult decision that all commanders have to make - to put men in harm's way knowing that they may be killed.


His Kind of Woman
1951 · 2h
country: United States
Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that the man who hired him may be the deported crime boss Nick Ferraro aiming to re-enter to the USA.


Best of the Badmen
1951 · 1h 24m
country: United States
After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders a chance to claim allegiance to the Union, thereby clearing their wanted status. But standing in Clanton's way are the corrupt lawmen Joad and Fowler, who would rather keep the men outlaws to collect the reward on their heads. After Joad and Fowler frame Clanton for murder, he manages to escape, becoming an outlaw himself.


Sealed Cargo
1951 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishingboat realises that it's a U-boat supply ship in disguise, loaded with torpedoes. So, together with his crew and a group of villagers he sets about a plan to blow the ship as well as any U-boats that approach it. Based on the novel "The Gaunt Woman" by Edmund Gilligan.


My Forbidden Past
1951 · 1h 10m
country: United States
An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.


Payment on Demand
1951 · 1h 30m
country: United States
David gives his wife, Joyce, an unexpected—and unpleasant—surprise when he suddenly demands a divorce. When she then learns that David has taken up with a younger woman, Joyce decides to make the most of this separation by taking a solo trip to the Caribbean. However, just before diving into a vacation fling, she runs into Emily, an old chum whose own divorce has left her embittered. Joyce then debates giving married life one last chance.


The Company She Keeps
1951 · 1h 22m
country: United States
A lady con artist sets out to steal her parole officer's fiance.


Gambling House
1950 · 1h 20m
country: United States
A gambler faces deportation when he gets mixed up with murder.


Where Danger Lives
1950 · 1h 22m
country: United States
A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to outrun the law.


Never a Dull Moment
1950 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher, Chris Heyward, she meets at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo and they get married, and leave for his ranch in the west. Her friends warn her of an early disillusionment with life on a ranch, far away from the glitter and bright lights of Broadway. Kay makes one difficulty adjustment after another, as the ranch is presided over by Chris's kids, and an incident occurs with a neighbor that prompts Kay to return to her glamorous life in New York. But she soon finds her heart is with Chris and his children.


Border Treasure
1950 · 1h
country: United States
Two cowboys aim to reclaim stolen jewels and money in this 1950 Western.


The White Tower
1950 · 1h 38m
country: United States
Mountain climbers in the Swiss Alps mull over past problems while trying to conquer a perilous peak.


Armored Car Robbery
1950 · 1h 7m
country: United States
While executing an armored car heist in Los Angeles, icy crook Dave Purvis shoots policeman Lt. Phillips before he and his cronies make off with the loot. Thinking he got away scot-free, Purvis collects his money-crazy mistress, Yvonne, then disposes of his partners and heads out of town. What Purvis doesn't know is that Phillips' partner, tough-as-nails Lt. Cordell, is wise to the criminal's plans and is closing in on his prey.


Rider from Tucson
1950 · 1h
country: United States
In order to make Tug Cardwell (William Phipps) sign over his rich gold claim to them, John Avery (Robert Shayne), Gypsy Avery (Veda Ann Borg) and Jackson (Marshall Reed) hire Bob Rankin (Douglas Fowley') to kidnap Tug's sweetheart Jane Whipple (Elaine Riley). Rankin hides Jane and then demands half the mine from the other crooks. Dave Saunders (Tim Holt) and Chito Rafferty (Richard Martin), friends of Tug's, find Jane and taker her to safety. The conspirators then shoot Rankin, capture Tug and force him to take them to his claim. Dave and Chito are close behind.


Storm Over Wyoming
1950 · 1h 1m
country: United States
Dave Saunders and his sidekick Chito, cowhands looking for work, arrive in Sundown Valley, Wyoming just in time to stop sheep ranch foreman Jess Rawlins from lynching cattleman Tug Caldwell. Rawlins seems set on starting a range war; but why? Before Dave and Chito can find out, they must convince Chris Marvin, Rawlins's attractive boss, that he's no good...and get out from under a framed murder charge. - Rod Crawford


Quicksand
1950 · 1h 19m
country: United States
Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeeper shows up earlier than scheduled. As Brady scrambles to cover evidence of his petty theft, he fast finds himself drawn into an ever worsening "quicksand" of crime.


Dynamite Pass
1950 · 1h 1m
country: United States
A cowhand becomes involved in a war between a road construction crew and the greedy toll-owner hoping to thwart the new project.


The Secret Fury
1950 · 1h 25m
country: United States
The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.


Stromboli
1950 · 1h 47m
country: Italy
After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli impulsively marry, but married life on the island is more demanding than she can accept.


The Big Wheel
1949 · 1h 32m
country: United States
The ambitious son of an accomplished race driver struggles to outrun his father's legacy and achieve his own successes.


The Great Dan Patch
1949 · 1h 34m
country: United States
David Palmer, a young chemist, returns to his father's Indiana farm, to marry a local school teacher, Ruth Treadwell. David meets again his father's horse-trainer, Ben Lathrop, whose daughter, Cissy, has left high school to help her father. Palmer marries and becomes wealthy through an invention, and is able to indulge his socially-ambitious wife. His father dies and Palmer returns to Indiana, where his interest in harness-racing is rekindled, as is his interest in Cissy Lathrop.


Mighty Joe Young
1949 · 1h 34m
country: United States
A young woman, Jill Young, grew up on her father's ranch in Africa, raising a large gorilla named Joe from an infant. Years later, she brings him to Hollywood to become a star.


Outpost in Morocco
1949 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Captain Gerard, greatest lover in the Foreign Legion, is assigned to escort an emir's daughter to her father's mountain citadel and find out what he can about the emir's activities. Gerard enjoys his work with lovely Cara, but arrives to find rebellion brewing.


Cover Up
1949 · 1h 22m
country: United States
Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small Midwestern town. All clues leads him into suspecting murder. Unfortunately, no one wants to assist him with the case, including Sheriff Larry Best.


The Boy with Green Hair
1948 · 1h 22m
country: United States
Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orphan, he gets demoralized. The next day Peter wakes up with green hair. Embarrassed and further ridiculed, Peter seeks solace in a nearby forest. To his surprise, he finds other orphans in the woods, who encourage him to spread news of the injustices of war.


Jungle Patrol
1948 · 1h 11m
country: United States
Eight fighter pilots hold off constant Japanese attacks during the construction of an airstrip in New Guinea.


An Innocent Affair
1948 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Vincent Doane is in the precarious position of trying to close an advertising account with his rich ex-fiancée. Unfortunately she is more interested in him than in business. Vincent's wife Paula gets suspicious and finally decides to do some flirting of her own to make him jealous. Unknown to her, she chooses cigarette tychoon Claude Kimball. In fact, Kimball hits it off well with both of the Doanes. The question is whether or not their marriage can survive all the shenanigans.


The Babe Ruth Story
1948 · 1h 46m
country: United States
The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.


Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
1948 · 1h 16m
country: United States
Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.


The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1947 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.


Born to Kill
1947 · 1h 32m
country: United States
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.


Trail Street
1947 · 1h 24m
country: United States
Bat Masterson's old friend Billy Burns convinces him to become marshal of Liberal, Kansas and help the residents fight drought and a destructive range war.


The Locket
1946 · 1h 25m
country: United States
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.


Nocturne
1946 · 1h 27m
country: United States
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.


Notorious
1946 · 1h 43m
country: United States
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.


Sunset Pass
1946 · 1h 4m
country: United States
A young outlaw gets involved with a gang of crooks. When he tells them he is breaking away, they threaten to pin a false murder charge on him. But he is rescued and reformed by his sister, and an undercover agent for the express company.


Bedlam
1946 · 1h 16m
country: United States
London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they were caged animals. Nell Bowen, one of the visitors, is horrified by the deplorable living conditions of the unfortunate inhabitants of this godforsaken place, better known as Bedlam.


Badman's Territory
1946 · 1h 37m
country: United States
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.


From This Day Forward
1946 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.


Breakfast in Hollywood
1946 · 1h 30m
country: United States
The goings on of a few members of a radio show's audience is the premise for this feature film derived from the popular ABC radio show of the 1940s. This film features Tom Breneman, the radio show's host, as well as Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Zasu Pitts, Billie Burke and Hedda Hopper. Musical performances are provided by Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio, along with Spike Jones and his City Slickers.


Cornered
1945 · 1h 42m
country: United States
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.


Johnny Angel
1945 · 1h 19m
country: United States
George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father's mysterious death.


The Body Snatcher
1945 · 1h 18m
country: United States
Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted of grave robbery, Gray holds a grudge against Dr. MacFarlane who had escaped detection and punishment.


It's a Pleasure
1945 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A star hockey player with the Wildcats is barred from Hockey for hitting a referee. Through the actions of Chris, Don is able to get a job with Buzz Fletcher's ice-show as the novelty act.


Murder, My Sweet
1944 · 1h 35m
country: United States
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.


None But the Lonely Heart
1944 · 1h 53m
country: United States
When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they're both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.


Music in Manhattan
1944 · 1h 21m
country: United States
Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent contest. Though this leads them to a few professional gigs, something is missing from their act and they are not popular. Believing a little cash will boost their career, Frankie heads for Washington, D.C. to see if her wealthy father will help them. En route Frankie is mistaken for the wife of the well-known pilot Johnny Pearson and ends up in his suite having to pretend she is his spouse. When the pilot meets her, romantic sparks fly.


Youth Runs Wild
1944 · 1h 7m
country: United States
The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.


Mademoiselle Fifi
1944 · 1h 9m
country: United States
In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. But when a Prussian officer holds the coach over, social standings are leveled and integrity and spirit are put to the test.


Bride by Mistake
1944 · 1h 21m
country: United States
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.


Step Lively
1944 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Fly-by-night producers dodge bill collectors while trying for one big hit.


Marine Raiders
1944 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A Marine major looks out for his captain on Guadalcanal and in Australia.


Days of Glory
1944 · 1h 26m
country: United States
A heroic guerilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia.


A Night of Adventure
1944 · 1h 5m
country: United States
A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges.


Gildersleeve's Ghost
1944 · 1h 3m
country: United States
Gildersleeve, running for office, is aided by two ghosts and hindered by a mad scientist and an invisible woman.


Tender Comrade
1944 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation.


Show Business
1944 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.


Seven Days Ashore
1944 · 1h 14m
country: United States
Circumstances force a womanizing playboy on leave from the Merchant Marine to ask two shipmates to help him by dating two surplus girlfriends.


The Falcon Out West
1944 · 1h 4m
country: United States
When a Texas playboy is murdered in a New York City nightclub the Falcon investigates. When he learns that the victim was slipped rattlesnake venom, the trail leads to Texas, his own kidnapping and near death.


The Curse of the Cat People
1944 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.


Action in Arabia
1944 · 1h 15m
country: United States
Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.


Higher and Higher
1943 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A valet to a bankrupt millionaire plans to rebuild his boss's fortune by passing a scullery maid off as a high-society debutante.


Behind the Rising Sun
1943 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.


The Sky's the Limit
1943 · 1h 29m
country: United States
Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron's personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly falls for photographer Joan Manion, pursuing her in the guise of a carefree drifter.


Mr. Lucky
1943 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A conman poses as a war relief fundraiser, but when he falls for a charity worker, his conscience begins to trouble him.


Stage Door Canteen
1943 · 2h 12m
country: United States
A young soldier on a pass in New York City visits the famed Stage Door Canteen, where famous stars of theatre and film appear and host a recreational center for servicemen during the war. The soldier meets a pretty young hostess and they enjoy the many entertainers and a growing romance.


Above Suspicion
1943 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.


Ladies' Day
1943 · 1h 2m
country: United States
A top baseball pitcher "loses" his pitching skills whenever he falls in love. After marrying a movie star extreme measures are taken for the benefit of the team.


The Outlaw
1943 · 1h 56m
country: United States
Newly appointed sheriff Pat Garrett is pleased when his old friend Doc Holliday arrives in Lincoln, New Mexico on the stage. Doc is trailing his stolen horse, and it is discovered in the possession of Billy the Kid. In a surprising turnaround, Billy and Doc become friends. This causes the friendship between Doc and Pat to cool. The odd relationship between Doc and Billy grows stranger when Doc hides Billy at his girl Rio's place after Billy is shot.


Hitler's Children
1943 · 1h 22m
country: United States
This lurid exposé of the Hitler Youth follows the woes of an American woman declared legally German by the Nazi government.


Cat People
1942 · 1h 13m
country: United States
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.


The Pride of the Yankees
1942 · 2h 8m
country: United States
The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.


Joan of Paris
1942 · 1h 31m
country: United States
An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact that the youngest, Baby, is injured. He must be hidden and his wounds cared for. The Gestapo has already issued orders for their arrest.


Ball of Fire
1941 · 1h 51m
country: United States
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.


Suspicion
1941 · 1h 39m
country: United States
A sheltered heiress falls for a charming playboy and elopes with him, but soon discovers his gambling vice and mounting debts. As his lies deepen and those around them meet mysterious ends, she begins to suspect that her husband’s affection may conceal a deadly motive—and that she could be his next victim.


The Devil and Miss Jones
1941 · 1h 32m
country: United States
The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store. There is labor unrest at the store, and the employees' anger is directed at him, who they hang in effigy outside the store despite not knowing what he looks like. Merrick, not happy at what he sees going on, decides to mete out the rabble-rousers. So he goes undercover as a sales clerk in the shoe department.


Footlight Fever
1941 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride reprise their roles in "Curtain Call" as theatrical producers Donald Avery and Geoffrey 'Jeff' Crandall. This time they try to con a millionairess into funding their latest show by posing as old friends of her lost love.


Mr. & Mrs. Smith
1941 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? To her shock, he answers, "No". Later that day, they separately discover that, due to a legal complication, they are not legally married.


Play Girl
1941 · 1h 17m
country: United States
When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.


The Saint In Palm Springs
1941 · 1h 6m
country: United States
George Sanders makes his final appearance as crook-turned-detective Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint," in The Saint in Palm Springs. The gimmick in this one is a set of rare stamps, smuggled from England. Wendy Barrie is the true heir to this treasure, and the Saint is engaged to protect her and the stamps. Our hero meets Barrie in a posh Palm Springs resort, where a gang of homicidal thieves have converged to relieve the girl of her inheritance. Three murders and one kidnapping attempt later, the villains are foiled by the Saint, with the aid of his onetime partner in crime Pearly Gates (Paul Guilfoyle). The Saint in Palm Springs is the sixth in RKO's series of films based on the character created by Leslie Charteris.


They Knew What They Wanted
1940 · 1h 36m
country: United States
While courting a young woman by mail, a rich farmer sends a photograph of his foreman instead of his own, which leads to complications when she accepts his marriage proposal.


Dance, Girl, Dance
1940 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.


Stranger on the Third Floor
1940 · 1h 4m
country: United States
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.


Anne of Windy Poplars
1940 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Sentimental drama about an ambitious young teacher who arrives in a small town to take the job of vice-principal. Based on one of L M Montgomery's 'Anne of Green Gables' sequels.


The Saint Takes Over
1940 · 1h 9m
country: United States
The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint" the Robin Hood-inspired crimefighter created by Leslie Charteris. This film focuses on the character of Inspector Henry Farnack. When Farnack is framed by a gang he is investigating, it is up to The Saint to clear his name.


My Favorite Wife
1940 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.


Curtain Call
1940 · 1h 3m
country: United States
Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find.


The Flying Deuces
1939 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Ollie falls in love with a woman. When he discovers she's already married, he unsuccessfully attempts suicide but he and Stan then decide to join the Foreign Legion to get away from their troubles. When they’re arrested for soon trying to desert the Legion—they escape a firing squad by stealing an aircraft.


In Name Only
1939 · 1h 34m
country: United States
A wealthy man falls for a widow but is locked into a loveless marriage with a woman who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife.


The Saint in London
1939 · 1h 12m
country: United States
Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds. He is aided reluctantly by Scotland Yard inspector Teal, who's convinced that Templar himself pulled off the heist, and less reluctantly by light-fingered Dugan and dizzy socialite Penny Parker.


Love Affair
1939 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.


The Great Man Votes
1939 · 1h 12m
country: United States
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.


The Mad Miss Manton
1938 · 1h 20m
country: United States
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she and her group of friends prove them wrong.


Room Service
1938 · 1h 18m
country: United States
Broke Gordon Miller tries to land a backer for his new play while he has to deal with with the hotel manager trying to evict him and his cast.


Bringing Up Baby
1938 · 1h 42m
country: United States
David Huxley is waiting to get a bone he needs for his museum collection. Through a series of strange circumstances, he meets Susan Vance, and the duo have a series of misadventures which include a leopard called Baby.


Breakfast for Two
1937 · 1h 7m
country: United States
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home. Valentine is attracted to Jonathan and sets out first to reform him, and his family's near-bankrupt shipping company, and then to marry him. In her way is Jonathan's fiancée, actress Carol Wallace.


The Life of the Party
1937 · 1h 17m
country: United States
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.


The Toast of New York
1937 · 1h 49m
country: United States
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his way through the treacherous world of Wall Street's financial markets.


Quality Street
1937 · 1h 23m
country: United States
In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.


A Woman Rebels
1936 · 1h 28m
country: United States
A defiant young woman struggles against the norms and morals established by Victorian society and enforced by her autocratic father.


Sylvia Scarlett
1935 · 1h 37m
country: United States
When her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with the questionable help of plenty others.


Alice Adams
1935 · 1h 39m
country: United States
In the lower-middle-class Adams family, father and son are happy to work in a drugstore, but mother and daughter Alice try every possible social-climbing stratagem despite snubs and embarrassment. When Alice finally meets her dream man Arthur, mother nags father into a risky business venture and plans to impress Alice's beau with an "upscale" family dinner. Will the excruciating results drive Arthur away?


Break of Hearts
1935 · 1h 18m
country: United States
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women.


Murder on a Honeymoon
1935 · 1h 14m
country: United States
An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.


The Little Minister
1934 · 1h 50m
country: United States
The stoic, proper Rev. Gavin Dishart, newly assigned to a church in the small Scottish village of Thrums, finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of his parishioners, the hot-blooded Gypsy girl Babbie. A village-wide scandal soon erupts over the minister's relationship with this feisty, passionate young woman, who holds a secret about the village's nobleman, Lord Milford Rintoul, and his role in an increasingly fractious labor dispute.


Anne of Green Gables
1934 · 1h 18m
country: United States
Anne Shirley, an orphan, is fostered by farmer Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla, who were expecting a boy to be sent them to help with their farm work. They accept Anne, who quickly endears herself to them and to the local villagers.


Sing and Like It
1934 · 1h 12m
country: United States
While breaking into a bank safe, a gangster overhears a bank employee singing and decides to put her in a Broadway revue


Spitfire
1934 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community. She falls for an engineer building a dam, who protects her.


Two Alone
1934 · 1h 15m
country: United States
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like they way Slag has been looking at her lately.


Little Women
1933 · 1h 55m
country: United States
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.


Ann Vickers
1933 · 1h 16m
country: United States
After a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.


Morning Glory
1933 · 1h 14m
country: United States
Wildly optimistic chatterbox Eva Lovelace is a would-be actress trying to crash the New York stage. She attracts the interest of a paternal actor, a philandering producer, and an earnest playwright. Is she destined for stardom, or will she fade like a morning glory after its brief blooming?


Melody Cruise
1933 · 1h 16m
country: United States
A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.


Sweepings
1933 · 1h 20m
country: United States
Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his three sons and daughter, but has to deal with their lack of interest or aptitude.
Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament
Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament
1933 · 21m
country: United States
A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustache-twirling villain in a den of caricatured Chinese gangsters.


Christopher Strong
1933 · 1h 18m
country: United States
A romance develops between a happily married middle-aged British politician and an adventurous young aviatrix.


The Animal Kingdom
1932 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage, Tom is bored with the social scene and the obligations of his life. He publishes books that will sell, not books that he wants to write. Even worse, he has his old friend working as a butler and Cecelia wants him fired. When Tom tries to get back together with Daisy to renew the feelings that he once felt, Daisy turns the tables on him and leaves to protect both of them.


Little Orphan Annie
1932 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Millionaire Daddy Warbucks goes bust in the Great Depression and is forced to abandon his adopted daughter, Annie. While he's out west working on another fortune, Annie finds an orphaned boy on the streets and helps him find a home.


A Bill of Divorcement
1932 · 1h 10m
country: United States
A World War I veteran returns home after fifteen years in an asylum and finds that everything has changed — his daughter is grown and about to marry.


What Price Hollywood?
1932 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a screen test. A studio contract follows. Just as Mary finds her dreams coming true, Carey’s life and career begins its descent.


Girl Crazy
1932 · 1h 14m
country: United States
New York playboy Danny Churchill is sent to a small town in Arizona, where being sheriff is very dangerous, to keep away from girls, but he decides to open a dude ranch there. He asks his friend Slick, a professional gambler and his wife Kitty, to help him. Slick decides to go there in a cab, driven by shy Jimmy. Jimmy's younger sister Tessie also travels there. There Danny has fallen in love with Molly, but troubles arise for him when the local heavy decides that he doesn't like the ranch and announces running for sheriff. Danny and Slick got the idea that Jimmy would be the ideal candidate, especially because of the fact that the heavy has announced he would kill another sheriff. With some help Jimmy is elected, but Molly leaves Danny with a New York shyster for Mexico. Mitzi, Danny, Kitty, Patsy - Jimmy's sweetheart as well as Jimmy and Slick follow her to win her heart back for Danny, but they are followed by the local heavy and his friend.


The Lost Squadron
1932 · 1h 19m
country: United States
When World War I comes to an end, three pilots find themselves on hard times. They wind up in Hollywood, where they work as stunt fliers for a sadistic director.


Smart Woman
1931 · 1h 8m
country: United States
A society man's loving, devoted wife, upon learning that he has been unfaithful and is planning to leave her for the other woman, strategically pretends to be having an affair of her own. The woman's friends gladly assist in the deception.


The Gay Diplomat
1931 · 1h 7m
country: United States
Captain Orloff is sent to Bucharest to capture a Mata Hari type of spy, but many different women fit the bill and are attractive enough to make one question one's allegiance.