Basil Rathbone

Ginger Rogers

Heartbeat

Heartbeat (1946)

Joel McCrea

Dennis Morgan

Andy Devine

Chance at Heaven

Chance at Heaven (1933)

Lucille Ball

Fred Astaire

Dennis O'Keefe

Song and dance man Jerry Travers is in London to open his show, produced by his good friend Horace Hardwick. He stays in Horace's suite the night before the show opens and becomes enamored with the woman in the suite below theirs, Dale Tremont. Due to a mix-up, Dale believes that Jerry is Horace. The only problem is that Horace is married to her old friend Madge and so Dale decides to teach him a lesson. After much singing and dancing, they eventually sort it all out.—garykmcd

Top Hat

Top Hat (1935)

David Niven

Frank Albertson

Barbara Pepper

Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.—Diana Hamilton

Bachelor Mother

Bachelor Mother (1939)

Marilyn Monroe

Cary Grant

Kathleen Freeman

Barnaby Fulton is a research chemist working on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. While trying a sample dose on himself, he accidentally gets a dose of a mixture added to the water cooler and believes his potion is what is working. The mixture temporarily causes him to feel and act like a teenager, including correcting his vision. When his wife gets a dose that is even larger, she regresses even further into her childhood. When an old boyfriend meets her in this state, he believes that her never wanting to see him again means a divorce and a chance for him.—John Vogel

Monkey Business

Monkey Business (1952)

Charles Lane

Louise Beavers

Ellie May lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy-free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister, and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth, their marriage is jeopardized.

Primrose Path

Primrose Path (1940)

Fredric March

Charles Ruggles

Elisha Cook Jr.

Jerry Stafford, a businessman, is in love with his secretary but she deserts him for another man. When she realizes her mistake, she goes back to him. Doris Brown is her girlfriend who is in love with a man named Monty Dunn.

Honor Among Lovers

Honor Among Lovers (1931)

Katharine Hepburn

Adolphe Menjou

Terry Randall, rich society beauty, has decided to see if she can break into the Broadway theatre scene without her family connections. She goes to live in a theatrical boarding house and finds her life caught up with those of the other inmates and the ever-present disappointment that theatrical hopefuls must live with. Her smart-mouth roommate, Jean, is approached by a powerful producer for more than just a role. And Terry's father has decided to give her career the shove by backing a production for her to star in, in which she's sure to flop. But his machinations hurt more than just Terry.

Stage Door

Stage Door (1937)

Kathryn Grant

Brian Keith

Edward G. Robinson

Sherry Conley, a street tough and cynical woman with an unhappy family background, is taken from prison to a hotel, where the DA tries to convince her to testify against a mobster. Sherry is reluctant because the last witness was murdered before he made it to the stand, and why should she stick her neck out? At the hotel, several attempts are made on her life, and she falls for Vince, the policemen guarding her. —John Oswalt

Kuumat paikat

Kuumat paikat (1955)

John Le Mesurier

Stanley Baker

Herbert Lom

Johnny Victor's in love with an international businessman, Louis Galt, who is actually the head of a syndicate which mints illegal coins for the Continental market. But she soon learns that Galt has been deceiving her, and has no intentions of divorcing his wife. So she meets Pierre Clemont, a potter, and falls for him (onscreen and off). Into this little slice of life comes Emil Landosh, a confidence man, and he steals a bracelet that Galt had given Victor and uses it to pay a debt. Enter a twist-of-fate, and it ends up in Galt's hands. Strained credibility aside since many, many films depend on beating the coincidental odds, Galt assumes that Landosh is Victor's lover, and this isn't a good assumption on his part since Landosh kills him and then makes it appear as if Victor and Clermont did the deed. —Les Adams

Beautiful Stranger

Beautiful Stranger (1954)

Andy Clyde

Donald Meek

Czech immigrant Karel Novak fulfills his dream of coming to America only to learn at Ellis Island the entrance fee has been raised from $50 to $200. Unable to pay, he is put on a ship going back to Holland, but jumps off, swimming to Manhattan, and losing his wallet on shore. He is elated at what he sees, the skyscrapers, the automobiles and the opulence. While stealing doughnuts from a lunch table for girls rehearsing for a show, he befriends 19-year-old chorus girl, Sylvia Dennis, who then lets him sleep on the roof of her apartment building. Her young brother, Frank, gets him a job selling newspapers and he gradually works up into driving a cab. Meanwhile, romance blossoms, and when authorities threaten to send Frank to a young boys' home until Sylvia gets married, Karel proposes and Sylvia accepts. But the spectre of his illegal status causes him to see a lawyer about becoming a citizen. He unknowingly goes to shyster Halsey J. Pander, who turns him in for the money.

Romance in Manhattan

Romance in Manhattan (1935)

Gene Tierney

Reginald Gardiner

Peggy Ann Garner

A married Broadway producer is taken with an innocent young woman who wants to be a writer and make it on Broadway. He decides to take her under his wing, but it's not long before the young lady is found dead in his apartment. At first thought to be a suicide, it is later discovered that she has been murdered, and suspicion immediately falls on the producer. He begins his own investigation in order to clear his name, and one of the first things he finds out is that the young woman wasn't quite as naive and innocent as she appeared to be.

Black Widow

Black Widow (1954)

Ray Milland

Norma Varden

Rita Johnson

New York working girl Susan Applegate is desperate to go home to Iowa but does not have the railway fare so she disguises herself as a child to ride half fare. Enroute she meets Philip Kirby, an Army major teaching at a military school. —Jack McKillop

The Major and the Minor

The Major and the Minor (1942)

Randolph Scott

When the fleet puts in at San Francisco, sailor Bake Baker tries to rekindle the flame with his old dancing partner, Sherry Martin, while Bake's buddy Bilge Smith romances Sherry's sister Connie. But it's not all smooth sailing: Bake has a habit of losing Sherry's jobs for her; and despite Connie's dreams, Bilge is not ready to settle down.

Follow the Fleet

Follow the Fleet (1936)

Betty Grable

Edward Everett Horton

Mimi Glossop wants a divorce so her Aunt Hortense hires a professional to play the correspondent in apparent infidelity. American dancer Guy Holden meets Mimi while visiting Brightbourne (Brighton) and she thinks he is the correspondent. The plot is really an excuse for song and dance. The movie won three Academy nominations and the first Oscar for Best Song: "The Continental", a twenty-two minute production number.

The Gay Divorcee

The Gay Divorcee (1934)

Jerome Cowan

Ballet star Pete "Petrov" Peters arranges to cross the Atlantic aboard the same ship as the dancer he's fallen for but barely knows, musical star Linda Keene. By the time the ocean liner reaches New York, a little white lie has churned through the rumor mill and turned into a hot gossip item: that the two celebrities are secretly married.

Shall We Dance

Shall We Dance (1937)

Victor Moore

John Shelton

Lucky is tricked into missing his wedding to Margaret by the other members of Pop's magic and dance act, and has to make $25000 to be allowed to marry her. He and Pop go to New York where they run into Penny, a dancing instructor. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted (till the end of the film at least!) by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricardo, the band leader who won't play for them to dance together.

Swing Time

Swing Time (1936)

Ralph Bellamy

Jack Carson

Dr. Tony Flagg's friend, Steven, has problems in the relationship with his fiancee, Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Dr. Flagg. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with Dr. Flagg. When he tries to use hypnosis to strengthen her feelings for Steven, things get complicated. —

Carefree

Carefree (1938)

Shirley Temple

Gary Gray

Spring Byington

Mary Marshall, serving a six year term for accidental manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her uncle and his family in a small Midwestern town. On the train she meets Zach Morgan, a troubled army sergeant on leave for the holidays from a military hospital. Although his physical wounds have healed, he is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and is subject to panic attacks. The pair are attracted to one another and in the warm atmosphere of the Christmas season friendship blossoms into romance, but Mary is reluctant to tell him of her past and that she must shortly return to prison to serve the remainder of her sentence. —duke1029

I'll Be Seeing You

I'll Be Seeing You (1944)

Dick Powell

Renowned Broadway producer/director Julian Marsh is hired to put together a new musical revue. It's being financed by Abner Dillon to provide a starring vehicle for his girlfriend, songstress Dorothy Brock. Marsh, who is quite ill, is a difficult task master working long hours and continually pushing the cast to do better. When Brock breaks her ankle one of the chorus girls, Peggy Sawyer, gets her big chance to be the star. She also finds romance along the way. —garykmcd

42nd Street

42nd Street (1933)

5.9 / 10

Comedy
Drama

6 / 10

Drama
Romance

7.7 / 10

Comedy
Musical

7.5 / 10

Comedy
Romance

6.9 / 10

Comedy
Sci-Fi

6.9 / 10

Drama
Romance

6.7 / 10

Action
Drama

7.8 / 10

Comedy
Drama

6.7 / 10

Crime
Drama

6 / 10

Action
Crime

6.8 / 10

Comedy
Romance

6.7 / 10

Action
Drama

7.4 / 10

Comedy
Romance

7.2 / 10

Action
Comedy

7.5 / 10

Action
Comedy

7.5 / 10

Action
Comedy

7.6 / 10

Comedy
Musical

7 / 10

Action
Comedy

7.2 / 10

Drama
Family

7.4 / 10

Action
Comedy