Louise Bates

It's a Wonderful Life

Frank Capra

James Stewart, Donna Reed

A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Frank Capra

Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur

Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

Mrs. Miniver

William Wyler

Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.

A Chump at Oxford

Alfred J. Goulding

Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy

The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.

Arms and the Girl

Joseph Kaufman

Billie Burke, Thomas Meighan

Ziegfeld Follies headliner Billie Burke starred in a handful of silent films, of which Arms and the Girl was the second. Burke plays an American lass who journeys to Europe to be reunited with her fiance. Not only has her sweetheart been unfaithful, but she arrives on the continent just as World War I breaks out.

Inspiration

George Foster Platt

Audrey Munson, Thomas A. Curran

Audrey Munson (a real-life 'perfect' model for numerous Beaux-Arts sculptors) first appeared artistically nude as a sculptor's model, recreating classic artistic (nude) paintings in George Foster Platt's controversial film from the Mutual Film Corporation. In fact, the film told the story of her own life. This film has generally been regarded as the first non-pornographic American film to feature nudity. This was the first known film in which a leading actress stripped down to be naked, making her the first nude film star. (filmsite.org)

Give Me Your Heart

Archie Mayo

Kay Francis, George Brent

An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.

Slightly Dangerous

Wesley Ruggles

Lana Turner, Robert Young

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

Here Comes Happiness

Noel M. Smith

Mildred Coles, Edward Norris

Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue collar guy, Chet and falls in love with the poor but ambitious man. Chet observes a series of suspicious, clandestine meetings with her rich father and his chauffeur which makes him think she is stringing along a "Sugar Daddy" on the side. Financial trickery and sequences of misunderstandings and coincidences culminate with a wedding that turns out much differently than planned.

The Beloved Brat

Arthur Lubin

Bonita Granville, Dolores Costello

Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his business activities. She also feels that the household staff is against her and that no one understands her needs and problems. Things spiral out of control.

The Gal Who Took the West

Frederick de Cordova

Yvonne De Carlo, Charles Coburn

In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two cousins.

A Night at the Ritz

William C. McGann

William Gargan, Patricia Ellis

A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.

Here's to Romance

Alfred E. Green

Nino Martini, Genevieve Tobin

Kathleen Gerard, a high society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in Nino, a promising tenor, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and her girlfriend are perfectly happy until the Gerards pay a visit and Mrs. Gerard starts to show too much interest in him.

Silas Marner

Ernest C. Warde

Frederick Warde, Louise Bates

After having been wrongly accused of murder and robbery, a heretofore kindly and gregarious weaver becomes a nasty, bitter, lonely old miser. Originally a seven-reel picture, a three-reel re-release survives.

Guiders

Claude Cooper, Frank McNish

Oscar and Conrad comedy produced by Thanhauser.