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MRS. MINIVER (1942)

In 1942, with the Germans invading throughout Europe, William Wyler directed MRS. MINIVER, as a means of getting the United Sta...

PEYTON PLACE (1957)

"The book that could never be filmed!" In 1957, screenwriter John Michael Hayes faced this kind of stigma over the film versio...

THE LITTLE FOXES (1941)

Things get hot on the old plantation when Bette Davis squares off with everything and everybody to get to what she wants i...

THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940)

Good Lord! Tracy Lord's getting married again! And look who's here to bust up the wedding!

Katharine Hepburn finds h...

THE HEIRESS (1949)

Love, sacrifice and revenge are the basis for William Wyler's "The Heiress". Based on a adaptation of Henry James' novel; "Washi...

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STAGE FRIGHT (1950)

IN 1950, Alfred Hitchcock went back to London for the first time in years to film STAGE FRIGHT w...

THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR (1947)

Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison portray star crossed lovers living in different worlds in one of the most romantic gh...

Each week, gay comedian, actor and old movie lover STEVE HAYES comments on and dishes the classic movies he loves. From Film Noir to Screw Ball Com...

Here is a great song, performed by Sylvia Syms, a singer's singer, a supperclub siren with a tough but appealing style that compellingly conveys th...

THE LADY EVE (1941)

It's hi-jinks on the high seas as Barbara Stanwyck and Charles Coburn play a pair of father and daughter card sharks out to sw...

THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY (1954)

Buckle your seat belt, grab a life-jacket and say your prayers as John Wayne and an all-star cast take an ill-fated...

THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE (1946)

It's a dark and stormy night! Hide under the bed! Don't look in the closet! Stay downstairs! He knows you're alone!

T...

SUDDEN FEAR (1952)

Joan Crawford races to murder husband Jack Palance and his mistress Gloria Grahame, before they can do the same to her in this s...

ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953)

Gregory Peck and Eddie Albert help a princess discover the magic of Rome and Audrey Hepburn win an Oscar in William Wyler's c...

Imagine the possibility of PHAME's incredible student artists and performers, in this promotional commercial for "PHAME: the H is for Honored Tour,...

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE (1969)

Maggie Smith won her first and much deserved Oscar for the screen adaptation of Muriel Spark's novel, "The Pr...

DARK PASSAGE (1947)

Escaped convict Humphrey Bogart, with the help of beautiful Lauren Bacall scour the streets of San Francisco in search of the ...

GYPSY (1962)

Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood and Karl Malden combine their considerable talents for the 1962 screen adaptation of Jules Stein's and...

CAGED (1950)

Emotions run riot as Eleanor Parker and a superb cast of actresses fight for their rights and freedom in John Cromwell's tale of wome...

GIANT (1956)

Cattle, cowboys and oil run rampant and fill the screen as Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean bring their considerable tale...

CHINA SEAS (1935)

Clark Gable and Jean Harlow team up once again and make the sparks fly in Tay Garnett's action packed adventure CHINA SEAS (193...

SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (1952)

Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor dance and sing their way into your heart in Stanley Donen's tribute to...

MIDNIGHT (1939)

The comedy is light, breezy and definitely screwball as gold digger Claudette Colbert gets stranded in Paris with nothing but an em...

French singer and washboard virtuoso, Stéphane Séva, performing I Got Rhythm and Sweet Lorraine at Jim Caruso's Cast Party at the legendary Birdla...

SEPARATE TABLES (1958)

An all star cast brings to life Terrance Rattigan's story of lonely people living off-season in a boarding house on the coa...

THE RAZOR'S EDGE (1946)

Tyrone Power's return from active duty in World War II provided the impetus for filming the most expensive picture Twenti...

SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957)

The seedy underbelly of show business is the business at hand in Alexander McKendrick's SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS starr...

DINNER AT EIGHT (1933)

An all-star cast shows up at Lionel Barrymore and Billie Burke's penthouse for George Cukor's comic masterpiece, "Dinner At...

THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX (1939)

The trials and tribulations of being a queen are the subject of this week's "Tired Old Queen at t...

NOTORIOUS (1946)

Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman find themselves in a web of intrigue and a nest of Nazis led by Claude Rains in Alfred Hitchcock's s...

THE LODGER (1944) & HANGOVER SQUARE (1945)

The brilliant Laird Cregar stars in these two brooding murder/melodramas set in turn of the century Lond...

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (1952)

Cecil B. DeMille toured for three years with the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey circus to film the Best Pict...

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DESK SET (1955)

A holiday treat featuring the eighth pairing of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy and their first film togeth...

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (1955)

Menace comes in the form of a murderous false prophet in Charles Laughton's classic thriller THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER...

STAGE DOOR (1937)

It's an all star free for all, when Katharine Hepburn squares off against Ginger Rogers, Lucille Ball, Ann Miller and Eve Arden ...

SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER (1959)

Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift take a walk on the wild side in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's SUDDE...

LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945)

Gene Tierney rips the screen apart as the manipulative and murderous Ellen, who'll stop at nothing to take total possess...

SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY (1971)

An unconventional three-way love affair is the basis of John Schelsinger's landmark film SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY. Take...

THE LETTER (1940)

Director William Wyler sits on her mannerisms and squeezes out of Bette Davis what may be the ultimate depiction of sexual repre...

GREEN FOR DANGER (1946)

Who-dunnit? That's the big question when a murderer works his way through a make shift hospital outside of London during th...

SAN FRANCISCO (1936)

The great earthquake of 1906 provides the backdrop for a classic tale of adventure and romance starring Clark Gable, Jeanett...

A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951)

Monty and Liz, the two hottest stars in Hollywood in the early fifties come together hot and heavy for George Steven's re...

THEM! (1954)

THEM! THEM! the little girl screams and so begins one of the classic sci-fi /horror films of the Cold War period. Atomic energy from A...

FUNNY FACE (1957)

It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely, when Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn and Kay Thompson hit the streets of Paris sin...

FLAMINGO ROAD (1949)

Joan Crawford is once again, a gal with a gun, who's up to her neck in trouble in FLAMINGO ROAD (1949). Under the watchful ey...