Released Date:
1937-10-07
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
91 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
8.3 (4489 Reviews)
Director:
Leo McCareyVièa Delmar (screen play)
Josephine Lawrence (based on a novel by)
Helen Leary (play)
Nolan Leary (play)
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents are like sand in the gears of their middle-aged children's well regulated households. Can the old folks take matters into their own hands?
Released Date:
1938-07-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
82 min
Rated:
Approved
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (131 Reviews)
Director:
Rowland V. LeeKate Douglas Wiggin (novel)
Kate Douglas Wiggin (play)
Rachel Crothers (play)
S.K. Lauren (screenplay)
Gertrude Purcell (screenplay)
Released Date:
1938-06-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
92 min
Rated:
Approved
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (296 Reviews)
Director:
Edmund GouldingGenres:
DramaLloyd C. Douglas (by)
Lenore J. Coffee (screenplay)
Cameron Rogers (screenplay)
Abem Finkel (screenplay)
Lloyd C. Douglas (from: the Cosmopolitan Magazine story by)
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.
Released Date:
1940-05-24
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (1581 Reviews)
Director:
Sam WoodGenres:
DramaThornton Wilder (play)
Thornton Wilder (screenplay)
Frank Craven (screenplay)
Harry Chandlee (screenplay)
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks their front doors.
Released Date:
1942-12-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
81 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (515 Reviews)
David Hertz (screen play)
William Ludwig (screen play)
William L. White (based upon the book by)
An American newspaperman and his wife, caught in the London blitz, lose their unborn child in an air raid. Outraged, they visit a shelter for homeless children where they fall in love with orphans Margaret and her brother Peter. They eventaully adopt the children and bring them to America.
Released Date:
1942-01-19
Languages:
English, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Greek
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (6419 Reviews)
Director:
George StevensRing Lardner Jr. (original screen play)
Michael Kanin (original screen play)
Tess and Sam work on the same newspaper and don't like each other very much. At least the first time, because they eventually fall in love and get married. But Tess is a very active woman and one of the most famous feminists in the country; she is even elected as "the woman of the year." Being busy all the time, she forgets how to really be a woman and Sam begins to feel neglected.
Released Date:
1948-10-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
96 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (997 Reviews)
Director:
Bretaigne WindustGenres:
ComedyRanald MacDougall (screenplay)
Eileen Tighe (play)
Graeme Lorimer (play)
Foreign correspondent Carey Jackson is offered a job on Home Life, a "women's" magazine; he accepts when he finds the editor is his old flame Linda Gilman. Verbal pyrotechnics fly between Carey and Linda as they go to Indiana to cover the Brinker family's "typical American wedding." But triangles lurk beneath the surface of the impending nuptials. Can Carey rescue a story (and his job) out of the wreckage? Can all the sundered hearts be re-united?
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