Esther Williams stars in this dramatic true musical romance of turn-of-the century swimming champion Annette Kellerman, better known as the Million Dollar Mermaid. As a child in Australia, Kellerman learns to swim to overcome a potentially crippling physical handicap and develops into a champion. As a young woman, she travels with her father to London and dreams of a career as a dancer. But when her father falls on hard times, Kellerman resorts to her aquatic talents: swimming 30 miles of the Thames in a famous publicity stunt, then shocking Boston by appearing in a one-piece suit.

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Ann Blyth, Howard Keel, Fernando Lamas, Bert Lahr, and Marjorie Main, this Cinemascope treatment of composer Rudolf Friml's operetta tells the familiar story of a trapper's daughter who is torn between the Mountie who wants to civilize her and a dashing prospector. At first, cheerful mountie Mike Malone (Keel) is only interested in using Rose Marie (Blyth) to capture her sweetheart, renegade trapper Duval (Lamas), but eventually Mike and Rose Marie fall in love. Comic Bert Lahr sings "I'm the Mountie Who Never Gets His Man," and the original score is augmented by several compositions. Popular songs include "Rose Marie" and "Indian Love Call." A young Rita Moreno performs in a remarkable "Indian sacrifice" production number.

Academy Award winner Clark Gable stars with Alexis Smith as a gambler with a heart of gold who runs the rarest of all things, an honest casino, where Any Number Can Play. Despite Charley Kyng's (Gable) honor, his wife, Lon (Smith), and son, Paul (Darryl Hickman), view his business with disdain. But on the day that Paul is arrested for a brawl and Charley is diagnosed with a dangerous heart condition that will require him to stop gambling, Charley brings his wife and son to the casino for his last night of gambling. As they watch, Charley loses and wins back a fortune, thwarts a robbery, and bets the casino itself on a single turn of the cards.

A disgraced pilot is no longer allowed to fly as a result of his experience as a POW (prisoner of war) during the Korean War. Brutally tortured and brainwashed, he cracked under the strain. Now, the former pilot wants to fly again, but a general at Edwards Air Force Base in California fears that the pilot could suffer another breakdown. The general's secretary, who is the pilot's former girlfriend, intervenes with the general on behalf of the pilot, who then sets out to prove to himself that he is mentally fit to fly. This high-flying thriller uses exciting footage of the USAF Thunderbirds in action.

Academy Award winner Greer Garson and Dana Andrews star as rival doctors in the frontier town of Santa Fe at a time when a woman doctor is the Strange Lady in Town. 1879. When Dr. Julia Winlsow Garth (Garson) arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to open a medical practice, Dr. Rourke O'Brien (Andrews) does not welcome the competition and firmly believes that a women should not be doctors. As O'Brien finds himself attracted to Garth, and she openly supports the suffragette movement to bring rights to women only complicate professional rivalry.

What happens when a lost love returns? After Marise Aubert (Greer Garson) learns her husband Paul (Robert Mitchum) was killed trying to escape from a Nazi prisoner-of war camp, she shares her grief with the man who saw him die: Paul's comrade jean, who escaped in the same attempt. Despite Marise's initial resistance, the two share a tender romance - then Paul comes home very much alive. Marise is overjoyed, but jean may turn murderous to keep the woman he loves. With two iconic stars in their only film pairing and an emotionally resonant plot, Desire Me appealed to audiences reconstructing their lives after the horrors of World War II. A note of interest: during a seashore scene, Garson and costar Richard Hart, who plays Jean, were swept away by an errant wave. Thrown against rocks, Garson suffered back injuries that plagued her for years and disrupted the film's production schedule.

Wallace Beery and Robert Taylor star in this action drama set in the 19th century American West. Empire-building Blake Cantrell (Taylor) clashes with Captain Boss Starkey while constructing a railroad across the wide open spaces. As Cantrell progresses from drunken roisterer to pioneering visionary, Starkey goes from deadly foe to trusted friend. Charles Bickford and Florence Rice also star.

American movie icon James Stewart portrays one of J. Edgar Hoover's finest and Vera Miles co-stars as his steadfast wife in this salute to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The colorful career of Agent Chip Hardesty (Stewart) covers 1924 to the late '50s. Along the way he tangles with everything from the Ku Klux Klan to a bomber who commits mass murder for insurance money. His fiercest exploits come in the '30s when he stares down a gun barrel at Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, Machine Gun Kelly, Ma Barker and John Dillinger. From two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Don Whitehead's bestseller and directed by veteran Hollywood hitmaker Mervyn LeRoy, The FBI Story is your rat-a-tat ticket to the inside story.

James Cagney dazzles the masses with his rat-a-tat patter in this rip-roaring pre-Code comedy costarring Mary Brian, Ruth Donnelly and Allen Jenkins. No matter what the product is, Lefty Merrill (Cagney) can sell it. A fast-talking press agent, Lefty puts his mouth where the money is as he tries to prove to his prospective mother-in-law (Donnelly) that he can support both her and her daughter (Brian) in style. Hustling everything from phony treasure hunts to bogus reducing creams, Lefty rakes in dough by the barrel. But when his campaign to hype Florida grapefruit farms gets him arrested for fraud, Lefty must dream up a dynamite scheme if he's to move the product, beat the rap and win the woman of his dreams.

Ava Gardner, James Mason and Barbara Stanwyck star in this romantic mystery set in a glamorous world of wealthy socialites and predatory romance. Just as philandering Brandon Bourne repairs his relationship with his wife, Jessie, a beautiful and fascinating woman enters their lives. But when she is murdered, Bourne must find her killer to save his marriage – and the woman he really loves, his wife.

Oscar-nominated film based on the James Hilton novel. A woman's happiness is threatened when she discovers her husband has been suffering from amnesia. Oscar and Golden Globe-winners Ronald Colman ("A Double Life") and Greer Garson ("Mrs. Miniver," "Madame Curie") star in this tearjerking drama. Oscar-nominee Susan Peters co-stars. Multiple Oscar-nominations for Best Actor (Ronald Colman), Best Picture, Best Music and Best Writing.

Academy Award winners Henry Fonda, James Cagney and Jack Lemmon star.World War II. Across the South Pacific the war rages in acts of courage, bravery, heroism...And somewhere in becalmed tropical waters lazily steams the cargo ship U.S.S. Reliant, vital to the war effort but never seeing combat. As its crewmembers devise wacky adventures to fight boredom, the ship's lieutenant struggles to find a way to get into combat and fight for his country. But a different sacrifice will be asked of aspiring hero Mister Roberts.

In an era when women were allowed to be ornaments, mothers or drudges, young Marie Sklodowska of Poland dreamed of something more. She defied convention to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne and – with Pierre Curie, the professor who became her husband – to make one of the greatest breakthroughs in 20th-century science. Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon reunite after their Mrs. Miniver triumph to portray the courageous couple who won the 1903 Nobel Prize for their discovery of radium. This stirring biopic captures the challenge of research, the triumph of achievement and the profound bond of love they shared. Madame Curie is "a lasting inspiration [that] makes the quest for knowledge aromantic and thrilling pursuit" (Bosley Crowther).

Academy Award winner Elizabeth Taylor stars in an enduring American classic novel--Little Women. 1860s New England. As four sisters grow from girls to young adults during the hard times of the United States' Civil War, the difficulties, tragedies and joys they experience tear at--but cannot break--the deep bonds of sisterhood and family in this timeless and heartwarming tale of growth and self-discovery. Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott.

The setting: a gas station in the middle of a sweltering, desiccated nowhere. The women: Olga (Aline MacMahon), a wary, weathered loner with a knack for fixing cars, and Myra (Ann Dvorak), her pretty kid sister who dishes up diner chow and dreams of romance. The film: Heat Lightning, an edgy, femme prenoir that turns incendiary when visitors arrive – two bejeweled divorcees and Olga's old love, a killer on the lam. Guiding a cast that also includes Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot, Glenda Farrell, Ruth Donnelly, FrankMcHugh and Jane Darwell, Mervyn LeRoy (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang) ramps up pre-Code wisecracking and vise-like tension into an emotional wallop of an ending.

Edward G. Robinson stars as the ruthless newspaper editor who will go to any length, use any means--and destroy anyone--to get a paper-selling headline for the Five Star Final. Facing declining circulation, Joseph Randall (Robinson--Double Indemnity) decides to dig up a 20-year-old killing. He sends reporter Vernon Isopod (Boris Karloff--Frankenstein, The Mummy) undercover as a clergyman to get a photograph of Nancy Townsend (Frances Starr) as she prepares for her daughter's (Marian Marsh) wedding. Now a pillar of society, Townsend shot her lover two decades ago. And when Randall publishes the current photo of Townsend with the lurid photos and story of the shooting, Townsend commits suicide and her daughter's fiancé's family tries to call off the wedding. But even after he destroys so many lives in his quest for newspaper sales, will Randall feel remorse for the damage he has caused?

Charlotte Bronn (Jean Simmons) walks out of a mental institution and back into the emotionally stunted life that sent her there,trapped in a chilly relationship with a husband (Dan O'Herlihy) who seems far more interested in Charlotte's stepsister Joan (RhondaFleming) than in his wife. Charlotte clings to the hope that she is improving. But on the night of an elegant party, dressed andcoiffed in an unsettling attempt to resemble Joan, she loses her frail self-control…and finally faces the truth about her marriage.Simmons is magnetic as Charlotte, her lovely, delicate face reflecting the inner turmoil of a woman battling for sanity. EfremZimbalist, Jr. costars as a professor who offers Charlotte the compassionate support she needs, if she has the courage to accept it.Veteran Mervyn LeRoy (Random Harvest, The Bad Seed) directs this poignant and penetrating tale of a mind and a marriage at acrossroads.

All hands on deck! Anyone wondering why Marie Dressler was such an extraordinary box-office draw need only to step aboard the tug Narcissus and sail away with Tugboat Annie for a knockabout comedy-drama. Dressler stars as savvy skipper Annie, steering through Pacific Northwest waters and through troubles with her hard-working, adoring son Alec (Robert Young) and her hapless, boozing husband Terry (Wallace Beery, Dressler's costar in Min and Bill). There are plenty of laughs, but also lots of familial strife, until life-threatening danger at sea brings out the best in Terry...and puts everyone's priorities in order.

For sublime screen romance, look no further than this third Clark Gable/Lana Turner teaming. Even with no glamorous gowns in sight, Turner is at her appeaing best as a down-to-earth nurse who wins battle surgeon Gable's heart as they follow World War II across Africa and Europe. The problem is that Gable has a wonderful wife (Anne Baxter) waiting for him back home. Having entered the war as a self-centered society doctor, he finds himself humbled by the reality of war - and deeply, desperately in love with Turner. To its credit, the film paints no one as the heavy, only blaming the war for forever altering the lives of those who lived through it. This modern version of the Ulysses myth - a soldier, forever changed, returns home to his wife - says something genuine about American life through its tender tale of love and loss.

Andy Griffith ("Matlock," "The Andy Griffith Show") and Myron McCormick repeat their roles from Ira Levin's hit Broadway play. It's peacetime in the Army, but laughter abounds as a hayseed private and his harried sergeant stage their own private war. One of the top-grossing films of its release year, which went on to spawn a TV series. Co-starring five-time Emmy Award-winner Don Knotts ("Matlock," "Three's Company").

Oscar-honoree Edward G. Robinson ("Double Indemnity," "Soylent Green") introduced the world to a new kind of gangster in his powerful portrayal of Johnny Rico, a small-time hood who brutally shoots his way to the top of the underworld. Co-starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. ("Gunga Din"). This film was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, and the American Film Institute recently selected Little Caesar as one of the 50 Greatest Villains in film. "Little Caesar" was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry due to its cultural, historical and aesthetic significance.

"There's no place like home..." Entirely remastered, the colorful characters and unforgettable songs of Oz come alive as never before. This magical cinematic event finds Kansas farm girl Judy Garland ("A Star is Born," "Meet Me in St. Louis") caught in a tornado and magically transported to the Land of Oz. Needing help to return home, she is told to follow the Yellow Brick Road and find the powerful Wizard (Frank Morgan). On her perilous journey, she is befriended by the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger), the Tin Man (Jack Haley), and the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) who help her battle the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) and her flying monkeys. Based on the classic book by Frank L. Baum, "The Wizard of Oz" is a dazzling motion picture achievement, featuring unforgettable songs (including Oscar-winner "Over the Rainbow"), scenery, and costumes. The film had 5 Academy Award nominations, and Garland was awarded a special Oscar for her outstanding performance.

Academy Award-winner Paul Muni ("Scarface," "The Story of Louis Pastor") received an Oscar-nomination as a World War I vet who is wrongly convicted of armed robbery and is sentenced to hard labor where he endures gross humiliation and torture at the hands of a sadistic warden. Based upon a true story. Directed by Oscar-nominee Mervyn LeRoy ("Random Harvest"). Inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry. Recently selected by the prestigious American Film Institute as one of the 400 greatest American films of all time.

Oscar-winning legend Spencer Tracy ("Adam's Rib," "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde"), Emmy-winner Van Johnson ("Battleground"), Oscar-nominee Robert Mitchum ("Cape Fear," "Ryan's Daughter") and Robert Walker ("Strangers on a Train") star in this classic Oscar-winning fact-based World War II picture about General Jimmy Doolittle's efforts to train American troops for the first airborne attacks on Japan. Oscar-winner Mervyn LeRoy ("The Wizard of Oz," "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang") directed. Recently selected by the prestigious American Film Institute as one of the 400 greatest American films of all time.

Dick Powell ("Murder, My Sweet") joins Oscar and Golden Globe-nominee Joan Blondell ("Grease," "The Blue Veil") in this Oscar-nominated musical about three chorus girls who recruit a millionaire to keep their show going and help in their pursuit to marry rich husbands.

This musical version of the life of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee tells the bittersweet story about an aggressive stage mother and the effects of her devotion to her two young daughters (Natalie Wood, "West Side Story," and Ann Jillian, TV's "It's a Living"), as she vows to make each of them into the star that she never was. Great music and lyrics are provided by the team of Stephen Sondheim ("West Side Story," "Dick Tracy," "Sweet Charity") and Jule Styne ("Funny Girl").

Academy Award-winner Greer Garson ("Mrs. Miniver") received her second Oscar nomination for her moving portrayal of a Texas woman who overcomes the losses of her husband and child and founds a state orphanage. Co-starring Oscar-nominee Walter Pidgeon ("Mrs. Miniver," "Forbidden Planet"). Nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture, this film won for Best Art Direction. Directed by Oscar-winner director/producer Mervyn LeRoy ("The Wizard of Oz," "Little Caesar").

Nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture, this is the powerful story of a Roman soldier whose romance with a beautiful woman puts him at deadly odds with Emperor Nero. Based on the classic novel by Henry Sienkiewicz, it features stupendous battle scenes. Starring Robert Taylor ("Ivanhoe"), and Oscar-winners Deborah Kerr ("The King and I," "From Here to Eternity") and Peter Ustinov ("Spartacus"), who was nominated along with Leo Genn ("Henry V") for Best Supporting Actor. Directed by Oscar-winner director/producer Mervyn LeRoy ("The Wizard of Oz," "Little Caesar"). Be on the lookout for cameos by screen icons Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren.

Young Patty McCormack received an Oscar nomination for her performance as a murderous child in this chilling drama classic. Based on the play by Maxwell Anderson ("Anne of the Thousand Days"), it's an eerie examination of the question of nature versus nurture in the form of a little girl who is evil personified. Leonard Maltin calls it "spellbinding"!

The Marx Bros. team up to keep a circus from going bankrupt.