A Broadway producer (Robert Taylor) bankrolls his musical with winnings from the star's (Eleanor Powell) horse at Saratoga.

A tap-dancing understudy (Eleanor Powell) meets a sailor (James Stewart) on leave and replaces the star (Virginia Bruce) of a show.

MGM history; Cyd Charisse; host George Murphy.

Special effects by Willis O'Brien ("King Kong") highlight this tale of a radioactive sea monster's assault on Britain.

A fire-breathing behemoth terrorizes Japan after an atomic bomb awakens it from its centuries-old sleep.

Bug experts (Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon), a state trooper (James Whitmore) and an FBI agent track giant mutant ants from New Mexico to Los Angeles.

An astronaut (Hugh Marlowe) and his buddies land on 26th-century Earth and find men meek and women friendly.

Arctic soldiers and scientists find an alien aircraft containing a frozen creature (James Arness) that wakes and feeds on human blood.

A boy (Jimmy Hunt) tells a psychologist (Helena Carter) and an astronomer (Arthur Franz) about a flying saucer and his parents' strange behavior.

A pilot (Richard Derr), his girlfriend (Barbara Rush) and lottery winners escape by rocket to another planet before a star hits Earth.

Indestructible Martian war machines threaten Earth in George Pal's Oscar-winning adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel.

A newlywed (Gloria Talbott) sees her husband (Tom Tryon) turn into an alien and enter a flying saucer.

Emily Brontë's gothic heroine Cathy (Merle Oberon) loves stableboy Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) but marries squire Edgar (David Niven).

The morning after a London barrister (Laurence Olivier) lets a mystery woman (Merle Oberon) stay in his suite, a friend (Ralph Richardson) files for divorce.

A dying woman (Merle Oberon) and condemned man (George Brent) fall in love on a ship from Hong Kong to San Francisco.

An eccentric pianist (Burgess Meredith) invades a couple's (Merle Oberon, Melvyn Douglas) home and marriage.

A playboy prince (Maurice Chevalier) from a tiny kingdom is sent to woo a rich widow (Jeanette MacDonald) in Paris.

A playboy (Melvyn Douglas) charms a Russian envoy (Greta Garbo) sent to fetch three wayward comrades in Paris.

Two World War I soldiers (Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) land in a German prison camp run by one's friend (Paul Lukas) from Oxford.

British soldiers (Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Victor McLaglen) and their water carrier face Thuggee cultists at the Khyber Pass in 1890s India.

Two brothers (Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Anthony Bushell) on leave fall for the same girl (Rose Hobart) in World War I London.

Two World War I British pilots (Richard Barthelmess, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) fight the Germans their way, not their commander's (Neil Hamilton).

A bookworm (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) goes to Latin America and saves a politician's daughter (Loretta Young) from a forced marriage.

Instead of relaxing at a mountain resort a secretary (Ginger Rogers) falls in love with a stranger (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.).

A radio singer (Irene Dunne) becomes a Boston playboy's (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) probation officer, and they fall in love.

Sinbad (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) meets a beauty (Maureen O'Hara) and villains on a voyage to the island treasure of Alexander the Great.

Things keep getting worse after a young matchmaker (Gwyneth Paltrow) finds a mate for a simple young woman (Toni Collette) in rural 1800s England.

Suitors romance, then abandon, sisters (Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet) left destitute by their father's death in late-1800s England.

Dire financial straits reacquaint an aristocrat's daughter (Amanda Root) with her wealthy ex-fiance (Ciarán Hinds) in 19th-century England.

The arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet family, with five eligible daughters.

An actor acquires the homicidal tendencies of his stage character after suffering a concussion in a London air raid.

A man (Richard Egan) and a woman's (Dorothy McGuire) Maine-coast adultery parallels his teenage daughter's (Sandra Dee) romance with her son.

A Texas oilman's (Robert Stack) sister makes him doubt his wife (Lauren Bacall) and best friend (Rock Hudson).

Friends and family want a rich widow (Jane Wyman) to end her romance with a tree surgeon (Rock Hudson) about 15 years her junior.

An unmarried postmistress (Geraldine Page) attends a New York convention and meets a salesman (Glenn Ford) about to be married.

Would-be swingers Fred (James Garner), George (Tony Randall), Doug and Howard share a sexy blonde (Kim Novak) who's secretly doing a thesis on men.

An innocent upstater (Jane Fonda) visits her airline-pilot brother (Cliff Robertson) and meets a stranger (Rod Taylor) she tries to seduce.

A newsman (Paul Newman) sees a homely fashion buyer (Joanne Woodward) on the way to Paris, then sees her again with a whole new look.

Ernst Lubitsch's fanciful tale of a Casanova who looks back upon his carefree lifestyle as he awaits his eternal fate.

A murdered gangster makes a deal with the devil, agreeing to take over and corrupt a crusading judge's identity in return for avenging his murder.

Agents of heaven and hell fight for Little Joe's (Eddie "Rochester" Anderson) soul after his wife (Ethel Waters) gets him a pardon.

The Spirit of Man (Ronald Colman) debates history with the devil (Vincent Price) before a court of fate, because of the hydrogen bomb.

An all-black cast portrays Noah (Eddie Anderson), Gabriel (Oscar Polk), "De Lawd" (Rex Ingram) and other biblical figures.

In this short film, a bandleader must prove his worth to enter the Hall of Music in heaven.

A frontier widower (William Holden) treats his bride (Loretta Young) like a servant, until a passing stranger (Robert Mitchum) pays her attention.

A Southern belle (Eleanor Parker) frees a Rebel officer (John Forsythe) and his men from a Union captain's (William Holden) Arizona fort.

Railway police take action when kidnappers choose their busy station as the drop-off point for their ransom money.

In a Nazi prison barracks, other POWs believe that a cynical American sergeant (William Holden) is an informer.

Recalled to duty, a lawyer (William Holden) leaves his wife (Grace Kelly) and goes to Korea to bomb bridges for an admiral (Fredric March).

An older American artist (William Holden) falls in love with his bar-girl model (Nancy Kwan) in Hong Kong.

A screenwriter (William Holden) daydreams with his new secretary (Audrey Hepburn) in Paris instead of meeting a producer's (Noel Coward) deadline.

A war widow (Janet Leigh) has a 6-year-old son, and two men (Robert Mitchum, Wendell Corey) who want to marry her for Christmas.

The more Budapest co-workers (Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart) fight, the more they fall in love as secret pen pals.

A witch's (Kim Novak) warlock brother (Jack Lemmon) helps a San Francisco publisher (James Stewart) break a love spell.

A salesgirl's (Debbie Reynolds) boss (Adolphe Menjou) thinks his son (Eddie Fisher) fathered the baby that she found on a doorstep.

An unmarried store clerk (Ginger Rogers) finds a baby on a doorstep and is quickly mistaken for its mother.

Three ghosts visit a bitter man (Sterling Hayden) who has never recovered from losing his son during World War II.

A poor New York couple's daughter (Margaret O'Brien) helps an ex-convict (George Murphy) and his sweetheart (Angela Lansbury).

Judge Hardy's (Lewis Stone) son (Mickey Rooney) has double-girl trouble, luckily solved by a third girl (Judy Garland).

A teenage tomboy (Doris Day) with a fun family makes music with a college man (Gordon MacRae) in circa-World War I Indiana.

A widower's (Sam Elliott) daughter (Rebecca Harrell) finds a wounded reindeer that she is sure must be from Santa's sleigh.

In the desert, three Old West outlaws (John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr.) adopt the baby of a dying woman.

The recently divorced Gilbert discovers that his new girlfriend has stolen $50,000 and is carrying on with other men. Not long afterward, he disappears. Anxious to locate her father, Gilbert's daughter goes to private detective Nick Charles for help.

A corporate climber (Jack Lemmon), whose boss (Fred MacMurray) and others use his apartment for hanky-panky, aids a young woman (Shirley MacLaine).

Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.

Three fugitives (Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov) from Devil's Island help a French family at the mercy of a ruthless relative.

Raymond Chandler's private eye Philip Marlowe (Robert Montgomery) searches for a publisher's missing wife.

Detective Blackie (Chester Morris) is there when a magician convict escapes during a prison Christmas show.

An insurance sleuth (Dennis O'Keefe) probes a small-town suicide, senses hostility and suspects murder.

A lonely child (Ann Carter) lives in a dreamworld with her father's (Kent Smith) dead first wife (Simone Simon) as a playmate.

Three outlaws (Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler) promise a dying mother they will take her newborn to the child's father.

Dickens' London miser Ebenezer Scrooge (Reginald Owen) meets the ghosts of Christmases past, present and yet to come.

The easygoing parents (Cary Grant, Betsy Drake) of three children take in one troubled teen, then another one.

A Hollywood screenwriter (Dick Powell) has custody of a wild teenage girl (Debbie Reynolds) who is more fun than his girlfriend (Anne Francis).

A TV-network researcher (Katharine Hepburn) with an amazing memory humors an efficiency expert (Spencer Tracy) sent to improve her department.

Singing Father O'Malley (Bing Crosby) bails out crusty Father Fitzgibbon's (Barry Fitzgerald) financially strapped parish.

A carefree singing priest (Bing Crosby) clashes with a no-nonsense nun (Ingrid Bergman) at a school in a struggling parish.

A songwriter's (Dick Powell) big check puts chorus girls (Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler) to work but incurs his brother's wrath.

The daughter (Clara Bow) of a white woman and an Indian chief (Gilbert Roland) marries a man (Monroe Owsley) who leaves her broke and with a baby.

Charley has several dilemmas caused by his greedy landlord.

Compilation of silent film shorts about Christmas.

An orphan (Jacques Gagnon) learns from his aunt (Olivette Thibault) and uncle (Jean Duceppe) one Christmas Eve in 1940s Quebec.

George (Jim Hutton) and Isabel (Jane Fonda) marry and plan to stop to see Ralph and his wife, Dorothea, on the way to Florida. When they arrive and see the tension between Ralph and Dorothea, they try to help patch up the troubled marriage.

The story of Edna Gladney (Greer Garson), founder of the Texas Children's Home and Aid Society of Fort Worth.

An Irish horsecar driver's daughter (June Haver) meets New York showman Tony Pastor (Gordon MacRae) and goes into vaudeville.

A Norwegian farmer (Edward G. Robinson) lovingly raises his daughter (Margaret O'Brien) in Benson Junction, Wis.

A West Side loner gets a taste of high society when he becomes involved with a group of privileged young Manhattanites.

Two rich Manhattan schoolgirls (Tippy Walker, Merrie Spaeth) become infatuated with a pianist (Peter Sellers) and follow him around.

A headstrong girl (Hayley Mills) and her best friend (June Harding) bedevil the mother superior (Rosalind Russell) of a convent school.

A little girl (Patti Brady) schemes to reunite her mother (Eleanor Parker) and famous calendar-artist father (Errol Flynn).

A hobo (Victor Moore) shares a New York mansion with a veteran (Don DeFore) and others who need a wintertime place to stay.

A critic (Monty Woolley) breaks his hip in someone's home and stays there, in charge, until it mends.

An elderly woman's (Edith Evans) butler (Dick Van Dyke) leads servants in larceny to support her philanthropy and illusion of wealth.

A girl (Deanna Durbin) turns to a mystery writer (David Bruce) for help after seeing a murder near Grand Central Station.

The discovery of an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve brings new meaning to a lonely and depressed Los Angeles dancer.

A Los Angeles insurance sleuth (Charles McGraw) with a greedy girlfriend (Joan Dixon) plots a train robbery with a racketeer (Lowell Gilmore).

An Englishwoman (Aline MacMahon) is drugged and blackmailed for being kind to a stranger (Basil Rathbone) in her home.

Bratty children prevent their single parents (Melvyn Douglas, Mary Astor) from marrying, but regret it later.

A nightclub singer becomes involved in an accidental death as a petty racketeer tries to force his attentions on her.

An ex-convict's (Edward G. Robinson) niece (Jane Wyman) runs a shop over the tunnel he and his partners are digging to a bank vault.

A World War II veteran (Gordon MacRae) and his nurse (Virginia Mayo) search for his buddy (Edmond O'Brien), a reformed hoodlum on the run.

A gambler (Glenn Ford) falls for a social worker (Evelyn Keyes) in a settlement house where he hides from gangsters.

An Illinois widow (Barbara Stanwyck) with two young sons meets a major (George Brent) on leave who wants to have an affair.

A St. Louis lawyer's (Leon Ames) family (Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien) stays in town for the 1904 World's Fair.

The more co-workers (Judy Garland, Van Johnson) fight in a Chicago music store, the more they fall in love as secret pen pals.

A reporter writes a fictitious column about a man named John Doe, who claims to despair at America's neglect of the little people and plans to kill himself. To maintain the ruse, the newspaper hires a ballplayer-turned-hobo to pose as John Doe.

Based on the story by Louisa May Alcott. The four March sisters forge unbreakable emotional ties during the Civil War.

A bohemian socialite (Rosalind Russell) survives the market crash of 1929, marries a millionaire (Forrest Tucker) and teaches her nephew how to live.

In the desert, three Old West outlaws (Chester Morris, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan) adopt the baby of a dying woman.

An unmarried store clerk (Ginger Rogers) finds a baby on a doorstep and is quickly mistaken for its mother.

An orphan (Rex Thompson) raised by Scottish pioneers (Glynis Johns, Cameron Mitchell) in Wisconsin seeks homes for his five younger siblings on Christmas.

The more Budapest co-workers (Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart) fight, the more they fall in love as secret pen pals.

A hobo (Victor Moore) shares a New York mansion with a veteran (Don DeFore) and others who need a wintertime place to stay.

A war widow (Janet Leigh) has a 6-year-old son, and two men (Robert Mitchum, Wendell Corey) who want to marry her for Christmas.

The publisher (Sydney Greenstreet) of a women's magazine has his best columnist (Barbara Stanwyck) play holiday host to a Navy hero (Dennis Morgan).

A suave angel (Cary Grant) saves a woman (Loretta Young) and her Episcopal husband (David Niven) from spiritual doubt and marital woe.

Engaged to others, two cruise-ship passengers (Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr) plan to reunite six months later atop the Empire State Building.

Dickens' London miser Ebenezer Scrooge (Reginald Owen) meets the ghosts of Christmases past, present and yet to come.

Soapy believes that getting arrested and thrown into a warm jail cell is the best solution to being homeless in cold weather; fugitives Sam and Bill kidnap a child for a ransom; Della and Jim seek to buy each other Christmas gifts.

Three tycoons play Cupid for a couple (Richard Carlson, Jean Parker) on Christmas Eve, then guide them from the hereafter.