Cast: starring Ryan O’Neal and Barbra Streisand; director, Peter Bogdanovich
Runtime: 1 hr. 34 min.
Tagline: A screwball comedy. Remember them?
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
Cast: starring James Dean and Natalie Wood; director, Nicholas Ray
Runtime: 1 hr. 51 min.
Tagline: ...and they both came from 'good' families!
A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
Cast: starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall; director, Howard Hawks
Runtime: 1 hr. 40 min.
Tagline: At Last! Bogart makes love his kind of woman!
During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.
Cast: starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland; director, Michael Curtiz
Runtime: 1 hr. 42 min.
Tagline: The Best Loved Bandit Of All Time!
When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement.
“She's gay! She's glamorous! She's glorious! Leave it to Lubitsch to make her Paris love affair the slickest, slyest romance you've ever howled at!” (Print Ad—Greene County Examiner-Recorder, ((Catskill, NY)) 7 December 1939)
Only the royal suite at the grandest hotel in Paris has a safe large enough for the jewels of the Grand Duchess Swana. So the three Russians who have come to sell the jewels settle into the suite until a higher ranking official is dispatched to find out what is delaying the sale. She is Ninotchka, a no-nonsense woman who fascinates Count Leon who had been the faithful retainer of the Grand Duchess. The Grand Duchess will give up all claim to the jewels if Ninotchka will fly away from the count.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Runtime: 1 hour 50 minutes
Cast: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, and Ina Claire
“Marriage is a beautiful mistake that two people make together!” (Print Ad—Rochester Times-Union, ((Rochester NY)) 8 November 1932)
High class European thief Gaston Monescu meets his soul mate Lily, a pickpocket masquerading as a countess. The two join forces and come under the employ of Mme. Colet, the beautiful owner of the Colet perfume company. Gaston works as Mme. Colet's personal secretary under the alias Monsieur La Valle. Rumors start to fly as 'M. La Valle' steals Mme. Colet away from her other suitors. When the secret of his true identity catches up to him, Gaston is caught between the two beautiful women.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Runtime: 1 hour 23 minutes
Cast: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, and Herbert Marshall
“Girls are checking up on MAURICE CHEVALIER—and finding him cute and sweet” (Print ad—Sunday Tribune, ((Manila, P.I.)) 19 June 1932)
An unhappily married couple try to come between a happy one.
André and Colette Bertier are happily married. But Mitzi, an old school chum of Colette's, resurfaces out of the blue. As her marriage is on the rocks she has no better idea than to seduce André. André tries hard to resist but what could he do with that Mitzi? Colette decides to be revenged thanks to Adolph, André's friend, who yearns for her. Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald are captivating in this sparkling marital comedy enhanced by lilting tunes and the magical Lubitsch touch.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Runtime: 1 hour 18 minutes
Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, and Genevieve Tobin
Must be 21+
Two great lovers of the screen in the grandest of romantic comedies!
Oscar winner about a runaway heiress on the lam from her father, and the reporter on her trail. As they travel northward and engage in a series of misadventures, the gruff newspaperman and the spoiled young lady begin to fall for each other.
Director: Frank Capra
Runtime: 105 minutes
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable, Walter Connolly, Jason Thomas, Roscoe Karns
Winner of the Academy Awards: Best Picture (Columbia), Best Actor in a Leading Role (Clark Gable), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Claudette Colbert), Best Director (Frank Capra), and Best Writing, Adaptation (Robert Riskin)
Must be 21+
Romance, hilarity, thrills, surprises in the hit of the year with Barrymore at his best and Lombard at her loveliest! (Print Ad-Buffalo Evening News, ((Buffalo, NY)) 24 May 1934)
A satire of the theater world in which a down-on-his-luck Broadway impresario tries to land a popular actress, a former flame whom he turned into a star years before, to take the lead in his comeback play that he hopes will put him back on top. The Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur script is adapted from their Broadway play of the same name.
Director: Howard Hawks
Runtime: 94 minutes
Cast: John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Roscoe Karns, Walter Connolly, Ralph Forbes
Must be 21+
The raciest love battle in years! A wild, witty whirlwind of hysterics..! (Print Ad-Meriden Daily Journal, ((Meriden, Conn.)) 21 February 1940)
Rewrite of the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur play "The Front Page" is about a newspaper editor who goes to extraordinary lengths to keep his best reporter (who is also his ex-wife) from remarrying in a desperate attempt to win her back.
Director: Howard Hawks
Runtime: 92 minutes
Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, Ralph Bellamy
