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Battle Hymn
Rock Hudson gives an unforgettable performance in this compelling Korean War drama based on actual events. As a WWII fighter pilot, Colonel Dean Hess (Hudson) accidentally bombed a German orphanage, killing thirty-seven children. After entering the ministry to atone for the tragedy, Hess eventually rejoins the Air Force to train pilots in South Korea, while devoting his spare time to building a shelter for orphans. But now, to protect these children in a territory fraught with danger, he must...
Because of Him
After appearing in a Broadway production of Cyrano de Bergerac, actor John Sheridan (Charles Laughton) informs playwright Paul Taylor (Franchot Tone) that he wants a young, unknown actress to star opposite him in their next production, Strange Laughter. When waitress Kim Walker (Deanna Durbin) learns of Sheridan’s request, she tries to pass herself off as an experienced actress and even succeeds in winning the coveted role. That’s when the real problems begin. The score by Academy Award-winning...
Can't Help Singing
Singing sensation Deanna Durbin stars in the romantic musical comedy Can't Help Singing , her only movie filmed in glorious Technicolor. Set in 1849, Durbin portrays the spirited Caroline who leaves Washington to pursue a handsome cavalry officer (Davis Bruce) despite the wishes of her father (Ray Collins). After learning of her California destination, her outraged father posts a substantial reward for her return. Now, with a price on her head, Caroline attempts to keep a low profile. While in...
For the Love of Mary
When Mary Peppertree (Deanna Durbin), a White House telephone operator, breaks her engagement to marry Phillip Manning (Jeffrey Lynn), an attorney for the Justice Department, it causes a stir and encourages two new admirers, David (Don Taylor) and Tom (Edmond O’Brien), to pursue her. Mary’s romantic entanglements soon become the talk of the White House and even the President of the United States and four Supreme Court justices try to play Cupid for her in this screwball comedy which marked...
I'll Be Yours
Singing sensation Deanna Durbin shines in the musical comedy I'll Be Yours written by Academy Award winner Preston Sturges. Louise Ginglebusher (Durbin) is a small-town girl who goes to the Big Apple looking for work and finds herself in a jam. With the help of her friend, Wechsberg (William Bendix), she crashes a ritzy society party and attracts the attention of an amorous millionaire (Adolph Menjou). Desperate to put the brakes on this Romeo, she tells him she's married to a struggling lawyer...
It Started with Eve
It Started with Eve brings together the exceptional talents of Deanna Durbin and Charles Laughton in a hilarious misadventure of love and romance. An old millionaire (Laughton), believed to be in his final days, wishes to meet the young lady that his son Johnny (Robert Cummings) is planning to wed. When the future bride-to-be is unavailable, the dutiful son finds a quick replacement in a random hat-check girl (Durbin). Surprisingly, she quickly steals his heart and when his father makes a...
Lady on a Train
Deanna Durbin stars in Lady on a Train , a murder-mystery with a delicious comedic twist. A young woman (Durbin) on a New York-bound train is witness to a murder outside her compartment window. With a penchant for reading mystery novels and the help of a mystery writer (David Bruce), she sets out to solve the case after police refuse to believe her story. The plot thickens when she is caught at the victim's estate and mistaken for his showgirl fiancée. Adopting the ruse, she soon discovers that...
Mad About Music
In an attempt to maintain her glamorous screen image, a famous film actress (Gail Patrick) is forced by her studio to hide her 14-year-daughter (Deanna Durbin) in a Swiss boarding school away from the publicity-hungry press. To keep her real identity secret from the other school girls, she invents a fictitious father, claiming he is a globe-trotting big game hunter. Forced to prove his existence, she tries to coax a friendly composer (Herbert Marshall) on vacation in Switzerland to play along...
Something in the Wind
Deanna Durbin raises her voice in song and laughter in the musical romantic comedy Something in the Wind co-starring Donald O'Connor. When the wealthy head of Read Industries dies, his grandson Donald (John Dall) meets with Mary Collins (Durbin) in the mistaken belief the radio singer was his grandfather's young mistress. Pressed to accept a settlement, an irate Mary decides to teach the pompous snob a lesson and demands a million-dollar payoff. Aided by Charlie (O'Connor), a distant Read...
That Certain Age
Newspaper publisher Bill Fullerton (John Halliday) offers his guest house to visiting reporter Vincent Bullitt (Melvyn Douglas) who is under a tight deadline to finish an important article and needs a quiet place to write. His arrival creates resentment from Fullerton’s daughter Alice (Deanna Durbin) and her boyfriend Ken (Jackie Cooper) since they were using the guest house as a rehearsal space for a show and fund raiser for the Boy Scouts. At first Alice tries to drive Vincent away through...