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The Major and the Minor
Academy Award® winners Ginger Rogers and Ray Milland sparkle in this debut comedy from Academy Award®-winning writer-director Billy Wilder. A frustrated city girl (Rogers) decides to disguise herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Kirby (Milland) and he insists on taking her to his military academy after the train is stalled. This "memorable...
Skylark
Hollywood legends Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland light up the screen in the charming screwball comedy Skylark . Lydia Kenyon (Colbert) is frustrated by the behavior of her insensitive, workaholic husband, Tony (Milland). When she finally loses her temper and leaves, Lydia soon finds herself in the arms of her handsome divorce lawyer (Brian Aherne). Just when it seems that she will live happily ever after with her new suitor, her husband asks her to say “I do” to his proposition that they...
Her Jungle Love
Captivating Hollywood star Dorothy Lamour makes her vivid Technicolor debut in the wildly entertaining tropical adventure, Her Jungle Love . When their plane crash-lands in the jungle, aviator Bob Mitchell (Ray Milland) and his mechanic (Lynne Overman) are stunned to discover an exotic girl named Tura (Lamour) living there with her animal friends. As Bob teaches her the ways of modern romance, a devious witch doctor schemes to lure Tura away to assist him with his ritual human sacrifices.
Men with Wings
Men with Wings stars Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland and Louise Campbell as three adults tied together by their childhood dreams of flying. After growing up together, Pat Falconer (MacMurray), Scott Barnes (Milland) and Peggy Ransom (Campbell) find their lives soaring in very different directions. Pat discovers thrills and freedom in daredevil missions. Scott methodically works on constructing planes that are faster, lighter and stronger. Peggy, now married to Pat, bravely holds down the home front...
Kitty
Paulette Goddard, Ray Milland and Patric Knowles star in the rags-to-riches period film Kitty about a young woman from the slums who charts a path to outrageous fortune. After famed artist Thomas Gainsborough paints her portrait, sassy Kitty (Goddard) sees her prospects rise as members of the nobility take note of her unknown beauty. However, when penniless Sir Hugh Marcy (Milland) takes her under his wing and tries to pass her off as a real lady in a lucrative marriage deal, Kitty decides that...
Easy Living
Jean Arthur and Ray Milland shine in this screwball comedy written by Academy Award® winner Preston Sturges. Mary Smith (Arthur) is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier (Edward Arnold) tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter (Milland). It's a "delightful comedy" (Leonard...
Golden Earrings
One of the most captivating actresses of all time, Marlene Dietrich plays a lusty gypsy in the film that stirred up the censors, Golden Earrings . Escaping from the Nazis, agent Ralph Denistoun (Ray Milland) and his partner arrange to meet in Stuttgart to steal Hitler’s poison gas formula. On the journey, Denistoun meets Lydia (Dietrich), who keeps him out of harm’s way. Only with the help of the extraordinary gypsy woman can he finish the mission that will make him a hero in this tale of...
The Gilded Lily
An often overlooked comedy gem, The Gilded Lily (1935) marks the first teaming of screen legends Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray and is the epitome of a New York City urban fantasy. Newspaper reporter Peter Dawes (MacMurray) and stenographer Marilyn David (Colbert), nicknamed Lynn, meet regularly on a park bench sharing popcorn along with their dreams. Their budding romance is soon threatened by a chance meeting between Marilyn and Charles Gray (Ray Milland), an English nobleman visiting...
We're Not Dressing
Screen legends Bing Crosby and Carole Lombard join George Burns and Gracie Allen in the musical comedy We're Not Dressing. When the yacht of the rich and beautiful Doris Worthington (Lombard) is shipwrecked, the survivors find themselves stranded on a deserted tropical island. The tides soon turn as it becomes evident that the lowly deckhand Stephen Jones (Crosby) is the only one with any natural survival skills. As the romantic tension between Stephen and Doris grows, the passengers are faced...
The Big Clock
Oscar®-winning Best Actor Ray Milland, stars in The Big Clock, a smart and stylish film noir thriller about an innocent man wrongfully accused of murder. A hotshot crime magazine editor George Stroud (Milland), inadvertently becomes the subject of a murder investigation after spending an evening with his boss' (Charles Laughton) mistress. She ends up dead and he is being framed by the actual killer. Meanwhile, at the publishing office, Stroud's competent staff scurries for clues while he finds...