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Blue Skies
Screen legends Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire reunite in the musical spectacular Blue Skies. Dancing star Jed Potter (Astaire) and singer/nightclub owner Johnny Adams (Crosby) are both in love with songstress Mary O'Hara (Joan Caulfield). She marries Johnny but his passion for buying and selling nightclubs drives them apart. So Jed steps in, hoping to win Mary's heart - until fate steps in and changes the lives of all three. Featuring 47 sets, elaborate costumes and 30 songs by Irving Berlin...
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Screen legends Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper star in the classic screwball comedy Bluebeard's Eighth Wife directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Set on the French Riviera, the charming daughter (Colbert) of a destitute aristocrat (Edward Everett Horton) catches the eye of a dashing millionaire (Gary Cooper). After a brief courtship, she accepts his marriage proposal, only to find out on their wedding day that he has been down the aisle before – seven times! Determined to teach him a lesson, she makes...
Nothing But the Truth
Bob Hope's got his hands full trying to keep track of the truth in the outrageous comedy, Nothing But the Truth . Stockbroker Steve Bennett (Hope) is being pressured to lie to his clients, but his better moral judgment just won't let him. So, when his boss and his partner bet him that no one can go without a falsehood in a 24-hour period, Steve takes on the challenge. He soon finds himself in the company of his boss's attractive niece (Paulette Goddard) as well as a conniving showgirl and some...
College Swing
Put Bob Hope, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye, Edward Everett Horton, Betty Grable, Jackie Coogan and Robert Cummings in the same film and what do you get? College Swing , an all-star musical and one of the most entertaining comedy casts ever assembled! In this exciting adventure, a small-town college gets turned upside down when it falls into the hands of the new owner, Gracie (Allen), through inheritance. When Gracie decides that school is a bore, she hires vaudeville actors to teach...
Comanche Territory
Maureen O’Hara stars as the beautiful yet feisty owner of the Crooked Tongue Saloon in the western Comanche Territory . Katie Howard (O’Hara) and her brother Stacey (Charles Drake) run the town, and she is as skilled with a bullwhip as with a song and dance. However, she does have a soft side and it will surface for the handsome Jim Bowie (Macdonald Carey), famed frontiersman and inventor of the Bowie knife. Bowie comes to town with a treaty for the Comanches from President Jackson that...
Go West Young Man
Screen legend Mae West stars in the screwball comedy Go West Young Man about a frustrated actress whose amorous desires keep getting her in trouble! Movie star Mavis Arden (West) is bound by a contract stating that she cannot marry for five years which her press agent, Morgan (William Warren) strictly enforces. While on a publicity tour, their car breaks down and leaves them stuck in a boarding house full of odd characters. One in particular catches Mavis’ eye – the robust farmhand, Bud (...
Goin' to Town
Screen legend Mae West shines as a saloon girl turned devilish debutante in her first western comedy, Goin’ to Town . Bride-to-be Cleo Borden (West) suddenly becomes the benefactor of her fiancé’s ranch and oil business after a fatal shootout. Now a rich woman, she sets out to oversee the ranch and is met with disdain by British oil expert Edward Carrington. Sensing a challenge, Cleo takes a crash course in culture to get his attention. Her first test comes when she follows Edward to Buenos...
Louisiana Purchase
Comedy legend Bob Hope stars in the deliciously funny tale of political pandemonium, Louisiana Purchase . Jim Taylor (Hope), a partner in the Louisiana Purchasing Company, becomes the target of a Senate investigation when he is framed by his associates who are bribing public officials. Chief investigator Senator Oliver P. Loganberry is diligent in his attempts to pin the graft on Taylor. However, Taylor's crooked compatriots convince him to frame the senator. While the story could be right out...
Love Letters
Starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotton, Love Letters is a romantic mystery about a lovely, trusting young woman who suffers from amnesia after her husband’s violent death. During World War II, Roger Morland (Robert Scully) persuades his friend Alan Quinton (Joseph Cotton) to write passionate love letters to Victoria Remington (Jones). Believing that Roger is the author of the letters, she marries him. Roger’s deception sets in motion a dire chain of events that locks Victoria in a world of...
Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki
The Kettles (Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride) find themselves in uncharted territory when they travel to Hawaii in Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki . Pa's been summoned by an ailing relative (Loring Smith) to operate his pineapple factory until he recovers. In no time at all, tycoon Pa increases production (by accident, of course) and comes to the attention of a jealous business rival. From then on, it's every man for himself. Using their well-honed skills, Ma and Pa create hilarious havoc that...