Abie's Irish Rose 1946  N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Joanne Dru, Richard Norris, Michael Chekhov, George E. Stone, Art Baker, Eric Blore, J.M. Kerrigan, Vera Gordon, Emory Parnell, Bruce Merritt, Roy Atwell, Eddie Parks, Vera Marshe, James Nolan, Charlie Hall
Rosemary Murphy (Joanne Dru) is a young Irish Catholic woman who marries into Abie Levy's (Richard Norris) Jewish family. Although they try to hide their ethnic differences, predictable problems occur in their family but are finally reconciled when Rosemary gives birth to Abie's baby.
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Beyond Tomorrow 1940  N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Romance
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Winninger, Alex Melesh, Maria Ouspenskaya, Helen Vinson, Richard Carlson, Jean Parker, Rod La Rocque, J. Anthony Hughes, Robert Homans, William Bakewell, Virginia McMullen, James Bush, Gino Corrado
Three old, rich men (Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, and Charles Winninger), who have been wrapped up in themselves all their lives, are lonely on Christmas, so they look for dinner guests. James and Jean (Richard Carlson and Jean Parker) are selected, and the couple falls in love. Later, tough times cause a parting of the ways. The three elderly men die in a plane wreck and return as spirits to help get the couple back together.
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Diamond Jim 1935  N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Edward Arnold, Jean Arthur, Binnie Barnes, Cesar Romero, Eric Blore, Hugh O'Connell, George Sidney, William Demarest, Robert McWade, Tully Marshall
This is the film biography of Diamond Jim Brady (Edward Arnold), the millionaire gambler, who romanced the beautiful entertainer, Lillian Russell (Binnie Barnes), during his steady round of gambling, gorging on food, and womanizing.
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Dixie 1943 N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Marjorie Reynolds, Billy De Wolfe, Lynne Overman, Raymond Walburn, Eddie Foy Jr., Grant Mitchell, Clara Blandick, Olin Howland
This is the biography of Dan Emmett (Bing Crosby), the writer of the title song, "Dixie."
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The Flying Deuces 1939 N/R, 67 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker, Reginald Gardiner, Charles Middleton, Jean Del Val, Crane Whitley, James Finlayson, Richard Cramer, Michael Visaroff, Billy Engle, Sam Lufkin, Kit Guard, Arthur Housman, Jack Chefe
After Ollie (Oliver Hardy) has been rejected by his lady love Georgette (Jean Parker) because she is already married to Francois (Reginald Gardiner), he and Stan (Stan Laurel) join the Foreign Legion to help Ollie forget his troubles. But, their ineptness leads to them being charged with desertion. They escape in a stolen airplane that crashes.
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Follow the Boys 1944 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Drama
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: George Raft, Vera Zorina, Charley Grapewin, Jeanette MacDonald, Regis Toomey, Orson Welles, Marlene Dietrich, W.C. Fields, Gale Sondergaard, Grace McDonald, Charles Butterworth, Ramsay Ames, Elizabeth Patterson, George Macready, Theodore von Eltz
This is Universal Studio's all-star effort to help morale in America during World War II. The story involves a brother-sister-father (George Raft, Jeanette MacDonald, and Charley Grapewin) vaudeville act that moves to Hollywood where Tony (Raft) gains stardom with Gloria Vance (Vera Zorina). When World War II erupts, Tony, whose bad knee keeps him out of the service, organizes an all-star tour to entertain the troops. Dozens of stars are featured in the show, which features songs, dances and comedy skits.
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International House 1933 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Peggy Hopkins Joyce, W.C. Fields, Stuart Erwin, Sari Maritza, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bela Lugosi, Franklin Pangborn, Rudy Vallee, Sterling Holloway, Cab Calloway
A new invention–television–creates a stir as radio and stage personalities gather at International House to celebrate the introduction of the new phenomenon.
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The Invisible Woman 1940 N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Charles Ruggles, Oskar Homolka, Edward Brophy, Donald MacBride, Margaret Hamilton, Shemp Howard, Anne Nagel, Mary Gordon, Thurston Hall
Daffy inventor Professor Gibbs (John Barrymore) has perfected his invisibility machine but needs a guinea pig. Model Kitty Carroll (Virginia Bruce), having motives for being invisible, answers the call. Meanwhile, wacky gangsters are sent to steal the invention for their boss. Fun, with plenty of well-known actors.
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Mississippi 1935  N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Musical / Comedy
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields, Joan Bennett, Queenie Smith, Gail Patrick, Claude Gillingwater, John Miljan, Edward Pawley, Fred Kohler, Dennis O'Keefe, John Larkin, Theresa Maxwell Conover, Paul Hurst, Libby Taylor, Harry Cody
With a Rogers and Hart score to back him, Bing Crosby shines as Tom Grayson who is rejected by the Rumford family after he refuses to fight a duel to gain Elvira Rumford's (Gail Patrick) hand in marriage. Elvira's younger sister Lucy (Joan Bennett) is infatuated with Tom, but he leaves her behind and becomes a singer with the troupe on a Mississippi riverboat under the command of Commodore Jackson (W.C. Fields). After problems involving a killing, Tom realizes that Lucie is the one he loves, but, first, he must convince her that he is not a killer. This story was based on Booth Tarkington's "Magnolia." Songs include "Easy to Remember but So Hard to Forget," "Soon," and "Down by the River."
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Mr. Robinson Crusoe 1932 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Adventure / Comedy
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, William Farnum, Earle Browne, Maria Alba
While on a cruise in the South Seas with friends William Belmont and Prof. Carmichael (William Farnum and Earle Browne), Steve Drewel (Douglas Fairbanks) bets them that he can live on a small, deserted island with nothing more than his toothbrush for one year. Then, Steve swims ashore, and begins his adventure. He builds a home, provides the means for getting food, and even builds a radio. When a woman (Maria Alba), escaping from her wedding, rows her canoe to Steve's island, Steve welcomes her and names her "Saturday." Meanwhile, Steve's yachting pal Belmont gets the natives on a nearby island to scare Steve so that he will leave and then lose the bet. And new adventures await.
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The Navy Comes Through 1942 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Pat O'Brien, George Murphy, Jane Wyatt, Jackie Cooper, Carl Esmond, Max Baer, Desi Arnaz, Ray Collins, Frank Jenks, Frank Fenton, Joey Ray, Marten Lamont
Filmed shortly after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and using newsreel film footage, this World War II story involves the heroics of the crew of an old freighter that blows up U-Boats and shoots down Nazi bombers. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Special Effects.
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Nine Lives Are Not Enough 1941  N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Action
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Ronald Reagan, Joan Perry, James Gleason, Howard Da Silva, Faye Emerson, Edward Brophy, Charles Drake, Peter Whitney, Vera Lewis, Ben Welden
Matt Sawyer is a newspaper reporter who captures a big story while on the trail of a murderer and then is sued for libel.
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One Night in the Tropics 1940 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Comedy / Musical
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Allan Jones, Nancy Kelly, Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Robert Cummings, Mary Boland, William Frawley, Peggy Moran, Leo Carrillo, Don Alvarado, Eddie Acuff, Nina Orla, Richard Carle, Brooks Benedict, Kathleen Howard
Jim Moore (Allan Jones) is an insurance salesman who sells a policy to his friend Steve Harper (Robert Cummings) who is about to marry Cynthia Merrick (Nancy Kelly). When Jim falls in love with Cynthia, he steals her away, and they elope. This is Bud Abbott's and Lou Costello's movie debut, and they are given plenty of time for their shenanigans.
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Palmy Days 1931 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Eddie Cantor, Charlotte Greenwood, Spencer Charters, Barbara Weeks, George Raft, Charles Middleton, Walter Catlett, Betty Grable, Harry Woods, Paul Page
Eddie Simpson (Eddie Cantor) unwittingly becomes involved in a spiritualism scam and becomes mixed up in numerous offbeat episodes in this elaborate early musical comedy.
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Poppy 1936 N/R, 75 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: W.C. Fields, Rochelle Hudson, Richard Cromwell, Granville Bates, Catharine Doucet, Lynne Overman, Maude Eburne, Bill Wolfe, Adrian Morris, Rosalind Keith, Wade Boteler, Ralph Remley, Frank Sully, Dewey Robinson, Dell Henderson
Poppy (Rochelle Hudson), the daughter of carnival con-man Professor McGargle (W.C. Fields), falls in love with Mayor Farnsworth's (Granville Bates) son Billy (Richard Cromwell). Meanwhile, McGargle is wooing "Countess" Maggie Tubbs De Puizzi (Catharine Doucet) who is a phony claimant to the valuable Putnam estate. McGargle plots with Attorney E.G. Whiffen (Lynne Overman) to pass Poppy off as the real heir. By story's end, it is learned that Poppy was adopted by McGargle and, in fact, really is the heir to the Putnam estate. Now, Poppy plans to marry Billy and live happily ever after.
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Secret Command 1944 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama / Action / Thriller
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Pat O'Brien, Carole Landis, Chester Morris, Ruth Warrick, Barton MacLane, Tom Tully, Wallace Ford, Howard Freeman, Frank Sully, Matt McHugh, Eric Rolf, Frank Fenton, Charles D. Brown, Carol Nugent, Richard Lyon
Sam Gallagher (Pat O'Brien) is an agent with Naval Intelligence and is sent to a California shipyard during World War II to find Nazi saboteurs known to be operating there. He saves the day in this pretty good spy thriller.
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Sky Devils 1932 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Ann Dvorak, William "Stage" Boyd, George Cooper, Billy Bevan, Yola D'Avril, William B. Davidson, Walter Catlett, Paul Fix, John Miljan, Forrester Harvey, Jerry Miley
Two ex-lifeguards Wilkie and Sgt. Hogan (Spencer Tracy and William Boyd) try to live on the lighter side of life while evading action as pilots in World War I. They go AWOL and stow away on a ship. The ship takes them into the war zone where they accidently blow up an ammunition station. Meanwhile, they rival for the affections of Mary (Ann Dvorak).
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Tillie's Punctured Romance 1914 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Tillie's Big Romance
For the Love of Tillie
Director: Mack Sennett
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Mack Swain, Charles Bennett, Chester Conklin, Edgar Kennedy, Al St. John, Slim Summerville, A. Edward Sutherland, Charley Chase, Glen Cavender, Helen Carruthers, Billie Bennett, Frank Opperman
In this film, which marks the first feature-length comedy, Charles Chaplin plays the role of a con man who talks the farmer's innocent daughter (Marie Dressler) into eloping with him and then runs off with the money. But, never fear, good triumphs over evil by story's end.
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Too Much Harmony 1933 N/R, 70 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Cast: Bing Crosby, Jack Oakie, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Judith Allen, Lilyan Tashman, Ned Sparks, Grace Bradley, Harry Green, Kitty Kelly, Anna Demetrio
This enjoyable musical contains the song "Thanks." It is the story of Broadway star Eddie Bronson's (Bing Crosby) visit to a small town where he discovers talent and romance.
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| 1. Abie's Irish Rose (1946)
2. Beyond Tomorrow (1940)
3. Burning Up (1930)
4. Champagne Waltz (1937)
5. Diamond Jim (1935)
6. Dixie (1943)
7. The Flying Deuces (1939)
8. Follow the Boys (1944)
9. International House (1933)
10. The Invisible Woman (1940)
11. Mississippi (1935)
12. Mr. Robinson Crusoe (1932)
13. The Navy Comes Through (1942)
14. Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941)
15. One Night in the Tropics (1940)
16. Palmy Days (1931)
17. Poppy (1936)
18. Secret Command (1944)
19. Sky Devils (1932)
20. Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
aka: Tillie's Big Romance
aka: For the Love of Tillie
21. Too Much Harmony (1933)
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