Released Date:
1949-11-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
101 min
Rated:
PASSED
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (14968 Reviews)
Director:
George CukorRuth Gordon (screen play)
Garson Kanin (screen play)
When a woman attempts to kill her uncaring husband, prosecutor Adam Bonner gets the case. Unfortunately for him his wife Amanda (who happens to be a lawyer too) decides to defend the woman in court. Amanda uses everything she can to win the case and Adam gets mad about it. As a result, their perfect marriage is disturbed by everyday quarrels...
Released Date:
1951-05-28
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (7120 Reviews)
Director:
George CukorGarson Kanin (play)
Albert Mannheimer (screenplay)
Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn. Brock hires newspaperman Paul Verrall to see if he can soften her rough edges and make her more presentable in capital society. But Harry gets more than he bargained for as Billie absorbs Verall's lessons in U.S. history and not only comes to the realization that Harry is nothing but a two-bit, corrupt crook, but in the process also falls in love with her handsome tutor.
Released Date:
1952-02-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
92 min
IMDB Ratings:
(792 Reviews)
Director:
George CukorFlorence and Chet Keefer have had a troublesome marriage. Whilst in the middle of a divorce hearing the judge encourages them to remember the good times they have had hoping that the marriage can be saved.
Released Date:
1954-01-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
86 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (2092 Reviews)
Director:
George CukorGladys Glover has just lost her modelling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things -- like making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertising she winds up with her name plastered over 10 billboards throughout city. Suddenly all of New York is clamoring for Gladys Glover without knowing why and playboy Evan Adams III is making a play for Gladys that even Pete knows will be hard to beat.
Released Date:
1954-11-10
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
88 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (939 Reviews)
Director:
Mark RobsonAfter eight years of marriage, Robert and Nina divorce. He takes up with his womanising Navy buddy Charlie Nelson while she looks to her interfering mother for guidance. Both start dating other people, but although they try and ignore each other whenever they accidentally meet, it is obvious the past is not dead. Then one night they find themselves in a nightclub doing the mambo together.
Released Date:
1956-08-22
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (1072 Reviews)
Director:
Richard QuineAbe Burrows (screen play)
George S. Kaufman (from the play by)
Howard Teichmann (from the play by)
Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question the board of directors from their salaries to their operations. These are not the questions which the board expected to be asked of them, especially since they are all crooked, except for Edward McKeever, the current CEO who has resigned in order to take an advisory position at the Pentagon. Following the meeting, he bumps into Laura and offers to drive her home. On the way there, Laura displays her enthusiasm for being a stockholder, as a result, Edward takes a liking to her. With Edward in Washington, John Blessington and Clifford Snell establish their hold on International Projects - They see greater riches now that Edward has influence with the US senate, especially with the awarding of federal contracts, unfortunately for them he is honest, and won't do their bidding. In the meantime, Laura continues to be a nusance to the board. Blessington believes the only way to silence her, is to give her a high paying position with the company. The idea is for her to do absolutely nothing - Laura has other plans. She begins to correspond with other small stockholders in the company - a problem for the board. They decide to use her influence on Edward and send her to Washington to get contracts. Laura now knowing their true intentions for her, has her own agenda, that is, get Edward back in charge of the company.
Released Date:
1960-11-14
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
126 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (1986 Reviews)
Director:
Vincente MinnelliBetty Comden (screen play)
Adolph Green (screen play)
Betty Comden (musical play "Bells Are Ringing")
Adolph Green (musical play "Bells Are Ringing")
Ella Peterson is a Brooklyn telephone answering service operator who tries to improve the lives of her clients by passing along bits of information she hears from other clients. She falls in love with one of her clients, the playwright Jeffrey Moss, and is determined to meet him. The trouble is, on the phone to him, she always pretends to be an old woman whom he calls "Mom."
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