Gregory Ratoff

This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.

Her story is well-known - the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love goddess. But even though she scaled heights few could even dream of, she was one of the loneliest of stars. And yet, in spite of the breakdowns, the failed marriages, the sordid rumors surrounding her life -- and her death.

A collection of behind the scenes and home movies from the golden age of Hollywood.

This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in memorable scenes from her 20th Century Fox films, including wardrobe tests and clips from her last, uncompleted project, "Something's Got To Give". Hosted and narrated by Rock Hudson.

Vic Brennan convence a su familia en Dublin para reunir dinero y financiarle su viaje al remoto pueblo africano de Jebanda, donde pretende abrir un negocio de camiones de transporte. La familia accede con la condición de que su primo Samuel, empleado de banco, vaya con él para proteger sus intereses.

Superproducción sobre el nacimiento del estado de Israel (1948). Seiscientos once judíos que han sobrevivido a los campos de exterminio nazis, abandonan Alemania en un barco (el "Estrella de David") que atraca en Chipre. Después de superar grandes dificultades, logran al fin zarpar de la isla en el "Éxodo", barco de carga con destino a Palestina. El objetivo de los refugiados es crear el estado de Israel. Akiva, un líder fanático, considera que el terrorismo es la única vía para construir la nación, pero su hermano Barek y su sobrino Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman) no son de la misma opinión.

England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.

England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.

Yul Brynner interpreta a un genio musical cuyas excentricidades son controladas por su esposa, hasta que lo descubre "audicionando" a un pianista joven y sensual. Ella lo abandona y su carrera rápidamente comienza a patinar. El maestro temperamental debe volver a conquistar a su esposa despreciada.

Después de la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), Jake Barnes vaga sin rumbo por Europa en busca de emociones que compensen la impotencia que le ha causado una herida de guerra. En París encuentra a Lady Brett Ashley, que lo había ayudado a recuperarse de sus heridas durante la guerra. Jake se marcha a Pamplona con su amigo Bill a vivir los Sanfermines. Lady Brett y algunos amigos ya están allí. La tensión entre los hombres va en aumento, pues todos desean a Lady Brett; pero ella se interesa por el joven matador de toros Pedro Romero.

Abdullah, absolute monarch of a wealthy Middle Eastern country, has everything a man could want. Everything, that is, until he falls for a beautiful model. She rejects his advances, however, along with his offers of riches and luxury, chosing instead an officer in the king's army as her lover. As all of this is going on, the ruler is oblivious to the growing discontent among his subjects, and the threat of revolt that is increasing with each passing day.

Abdullah, absolute monarch of a wealthy Middle Eastern country, has everything a man could want. Everything, that is, until he falls for a beautiful model. She rejects his advances, however, along with his offers of riches and luxury, chosing instead an officer in the king's army as her lover. As all of this is going on, the ruler is oblivious to the growing discontent among his subjects, and the threat of revolt that is increasing with each passing day.

Abdullah, absolute monarch of a wealthy Middle Eastern country, has everything a man could want. Everything, that is, until he falls for a beautiful model. She rejects his advances, however, along with his offers of riches and luxury, chosing instead an officer in the king's army as her lover. As all of this is going on, the ruler is oblivious to the growing discontent among his subjects, and the threat of revolt that is increasing with each passing day.

Abdullah, absolute monarch of a wealthy Middle Eastern country, has everything a man could want. Everything, that is, until he falls for a beautiful model. She rejects his advances, however, along with his offers of riches and luxury, chosing instead an officer in the king's army as her lover. As all of this is going on, the ruler is oblivious to the growing discontent among his subjects, and the threat of revolt that is increasing with each passing day.

La joven Sabrina, hija del chofer británico de los poderosos Larrabee, está enamorada del hijo menor de la familia, que coquetea con ella por puro entretenimiento. El padre la envía a Paris, de donde vuelve convertida en una mujer elegante y seductora que trastorna a los dos hermanos Larrabee, tanto al frívolo David como al hermético y adusto Linus.

Don Gresham (William Holden), un joven y apuesto soltero, conoce a Patty O'Neill (Maggie McNamara), una aspirante a actriz, en el Observatorio del Empire State Building de New York. Entablan una agradable conversación y deciden ir a cenar, pero una tormenta arruina sus planes. Cuando se disponen a comprar comida para cenar en el apartamento de Don, entra en escena David Slater (David Niven), un vecino que se muestra tan encantado de conocer Patty que la chica lo invita a unirse a la cena. Don y David habían sido buenos amigos, pero cuando Don rompió su relación con Cynthia, la hija de David, se convirtieron en enemigos irreconciliables. La situación se complica al entrar en escena Cynthia. Divertido vodevil. (FILMAFFINITY)

A New York cab driver helps an Irish immigrant with a baby locate her missing husband.

Película basada en relatos del escritor inglés O. Henry. Consta de varios episodios independientes ambientados en Nueva York, a finales del siglo XIX, y presentados por John Steinbeck. Fue rodada por cinco de los mejores directores del momento: Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, Henry King, Henry Koster y Jean Negulesco.

Una joven que aspira a convertirse en actriz y triunfar en los escenarios se las ingenia para introducirse en un grupo de actores de teatro y hacerse amiga y confidente de una famosa y veterana actriz. El deseo de actuar y los celos la consumen hasta el punto de traicionar a sus compañeros en su escalada hacia el éxito. Ella halaga, atrae, seduce, pero también pisotea a todo el que se cruza en su camino: escritores, directores, productores. Sólo un inteligente crítico teatral adivina lo que se esconde tras su dulce apariencia, sólo él es capaz de ver a Eva al desnudo.

A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.

A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.

A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.

Orson Welles interpreta al siniestro mago José Bálmano, más conocido por el sobrenombre de Cagliostro, quien se verá envuelto en una trama de intrigas palaciegas a través de la cual de piensa reemplazar a la Reina María Antonieta con una doble, para así poder tener acceso al poder. Adaptación de la novela de Alejandro Dumas.

Orson Welles interpreta al siniestro mago José Bálmano, más conocido por el sobrenombre de Cagliostro, quien se verá envuelto en una trama de intrigas palaciegas a través de la cual de piensa reemplazar a la Reina María Antonieta con una doble, para así poder tener acceso al poder. Adaptación de la novela de Alejandro Dumas.

La esposa solitaria de un marido adicto al trabajo conoce a un joven atractivo y encantador en Capri. Su apasionada relación ha de llegar a su fin cuando el marido se entera y enferma. Entonces, la hija entra en escena...

When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the lodgings. She approaches him directly, saying she'll go to the police if he doesn't meet her demands, but he brushes her off contemptuously. When he learns she's dead serious, he tries to buy her off with a thick wad of pound notes. But it's not money she's after; all she wants is two weeks at his country estate, living the life of a `lady.'

En Costa Rica todo es color, y nos muestran la historia de una pareja joven, Dick Haymes en la plenitud de su popularidad junto a la guapa Vera Ellen, quien, en contra de la voluntad de sus padres, se niega a casarse.

Katharine Hilliard, mousy dean of a stuffy music school, meets and is insulted by swing band leader Barry Clayton on a train. To "show" him she takes a friend's advice, removes her glasses, and puts on a designer gown. Naturally, she becomes gorgeous. Soon, both Barry and crooner Jimmy Hale are after her, and she finds herself in the midst of triangles and misunderstandings.

Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an English citizen trapped in Paris when the Nazis invade. The women team up to help Allied aviators escape from the occupied city into Free French territory. The screenplay was based on the true wartime activities of Etta Shiber, who engineered the escape of nearly 300 Allied pilots. British fans of comedienne Gracie Fields were put off by the scenes in which she is tortured by the Gestapo, while Constance Bennett's following had been rapidly dwindling since the 1930s; as a result, the heartfelt but tiresome Paris Underground failed to make a dent at the box-office. It would be Constance Bennett's last starring film--and Gracie Fields' last film, period.

Bill wants to join the Army, but he's 4F so he asks a wizard to help him, but the wizard has slight problems with his history knowlege, so he sends Bill everywhere in history, but not to WWII.

Climbing to fame, Irish-American composer Ernest R. Ball romances a showgirl, who catches the eye of an underworld character.

En los años previos a la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un director de orquesta norteamericano, de gira por la Unión Soviética, se enamora de una muchacha nativa. Cuando los nazis atacan el país, ambos deben hacerles frente formando parte de la resistencia.

Broadway star Fay Lawrence (West) is a temperamental diva who is reluctantly persuaded by a Broadway producer (Gaxton) to star in his latest production.

A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.

A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.

Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy always has an eye for the ladies and he starts paying attention to beautiful chorus girl Pat Lambert. Pat's boyfriend Bill Smith isn't impressed with Tommy even though Tommy gets him a boxing part in the show. When Tommy finds out that Pat and Bill were secretly together the night before the show opens, he angrily plans to turn the boxing scene with Bill into a real bout.

The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the army, Tim to escape Vince's wrath and Vince to get his lunch-hooks on Tim. Both of our heroes run afoul of Army discipline and protocol in general, and tough top sergeant Valentine (Donald MacBride).

El conde Franchi tiene dos hijos gemelos. Cuando el barón Colonna decide exterminar a la familia Franchi, el doctor Paoli escapa con los dos bebés.

A circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and a home-life. She marries her first husband, her mentor and instructor, primarily out of gratitude. After his death, she marries an American thinking that can be her escape from the world of ballet. But she leaves him to return the dancing. She has a child but does not tell her husband. When her daughter is two-years-old, the husband finds out and takes the child to America. The ballerina continues to dance until her best dancing days have gone by.

Adam y su esposa contratan a Emilie como institutriz de sus cuatro hijos. Poco después muere la esposa de Adam, y Emilie, fiel a la promesa que le hizo en sus últimos momentos, continúa con la familia. Pero una crisis financiera arruina a Adam.

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.

Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...

In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.

Cuando una pareja va a celebrar su segundo aniversario de boda, ella descubre una mancha de carmín en el cuello de su esposo; así que comienza a sospechar de todas las mujeres que trabajan con su marido. Para pagarle con la misma moneda, ella acepta un trabajo como secretaria de un afamado playboy.

Un famoso violinista, tras volver a casa después de un gira triunfal, conoce a la profesora de piano de su hija. Sus encuentros al principio instrascendentes se harán cada vez más intensos hasta que descubren que están enamorados.

Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.

En Nueva York durante los años 20, una cantante lucha por apartar a su novio de los problemas...

Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.

Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.

A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. They raise money to run the horse in the Hollywood Derby at Santa Anita race track. Many Hollywood personalities attend the event.

Las manicuras Sally, Irene y Mary ansían triunfar en Broadway. Cuando Mary hereda un viejo transbordador, lo convierten en un club de éxito.

An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check him out but falls in love with him.

En París vive el norteamericano Alexis, todo un galán que se dedica a la buena vida utilizando cualquier truco con tal de no dar un palo al agua. Lo malo es que no puede hacer frente a la deuda contraída con Monseuir Lobard, dueño de un café. Así que, para poder pagarle, éste propone a Alexis que saque el dinero cortejando a una rica heredera que acaba de llegar a la ciudad. Haciéndose pasar por un aristócrata ruso, Alexis se dispone a enamorarla y sacarle el dinero, dejándola rendida a sus pies. Pero nada sale como estaba previsto.

En París vive el norteamericano Alexis, todo un galán que se dedica a la buena vida utilizando cualquier truco con tal de no dar un palo al agua. Lo malo es que no puede hacer frente a la deuda contraída con Monseuir Lobard, dueño de un café. Así que, para poder pagarle, éste propone a Alexis que saque el dinero cortejando a una rica heredera que acaba de llegar a la ciudad. Haciéndose pasar por un aristócrata ruso, Alexis se dispone a enamorarla y sacarle el dinero, dejándola rendida a sus pies. Pero nada sale como estaba previsto.

In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"

Entrañable historia romántica entre un trabajador de las alcantarillas y una joven a quien él libra de ser detenida por la policía. 'Chico' la invita a permanecer unos días en su apartamento con la condición de que se marche cuando se arregle la situación.

A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.

Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Historia de la vida en las trincheras de un regimiento francés. A medida que los hombres van muriendo y son reemplazados, el despreocupado Teniente Denet se vuelve cada vez más sombrío. Su rival por el amor de la enfermera Monique es el Capitan La Roche.

The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).

Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.

Melodrama de aventuras que manejaba los tópicos de la mitología sobre la Legión Francesa.

Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette lighter containing some hot rocks.

Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who helps make Baxter a success. His head turned by sudden fame, Baxter falls under the spell of a society woman (Mona Barrie) who has theatrical aspirations of her own. She marries Baxter, then convinces him to produce a string of "artistic" plays rather than his extravagant musical revues. The plays are flops, and the woman haughtily divorces Baxter. Faithful Alice Faye, who'd gone to London when her ex-beau was married, returns to the penniless Baxter. She and her burlesque buddies team up to pull Baxter out of his rut and put him on top again.

After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed.

A lion-tamer's partly innate and partly acquired attitude to other living beings - that they shall submit without question to his will - is applied with unseeing kindness to an orphan girl whom the lion tamer adopts.

A lion-tamer's partly innate and partly acquired attitude to other living beings - that they shall submit without question to his will - is applied with unseeing kindness to an orphan girl whom the lion tamer adopts.

Britisher Sir Charles Farrington and a son, Rex Farrington, arrive in a Russian Soviet territory searching for another Farrington son, Michael,who has been thrown into prison. Valarie Perrovna is a singer who is in love with the imprisoned son and she provides the searchers with the information as to where the missing son is being held. They all go there and help Michael escape. But is their escape vehicle---a flat wagon pulled by three horses--- fast enough and sturdy enough through the snow to beat the Commmisar and his troops to the Rumanian border

British comedy. It was released in the United States the following year under the alternative title Trouble Ahead.

An actor is jealous of his wife's stardom.

Reporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the latest edition of his famous revue. As it turns out, she has lots of backstage gossip to choose from

A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.

In this comedy, a Tennessee art school student wins a scholarship to paint in Paris. He is thrilled until he arrives and discovers that his style is hopelessly passe and is considered trashy. The enterprising artist immediately changes style and begins painting highly-abstract moderns.

Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon proprieter, joins them.

Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?

La atrevida Tira trabaja como bailarina y domadora de leones en una feria. Debido a una necesidad urgente de dinero, acepta realizar un peligroso nuevo número: meter la cabeza en la boca de un león. Con esta atracción, el circo llega a Nueva York y Tira puede dedicarse a su ocupación preferida: flirtear con hombres ricos y aceptar regalos caros.

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

Glory es una cantante que ofrece su voz en la radio en la radio a la chica limpia y pura que promociona una compañía de toallas, y no sabe qué hacer para librarse de su imagen ñoña. Encima, como parte de la promoción, la obligan a casarse con un palurdo de Tennessee...

Daniel es un hombre que se ha hecho a sí mismo. A partir de la nada construyó uno de los almacenes más grandes e importantes de Chicago. Sin embargo, cuando llega el momento de que sus hijos lo releven, no le resultará nada fácil compaginar sus intereses con los de sus vástagos.

When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring that has been plaguing the police. The sister of another innocent victim joins him as they infiltrate the syndicate. Any wrong move could lead to instant death.

La policía utiliza los servicios de un ladrón para localizar a su novia, que ha sido secuestrada. Al mismo tiempo, un exiliado ruso desquiciado afirma que su pupila es Anastasia, la última superviviente de la familia del zar.

La historia de un estudio de Hollywood durante la transición del silente al sonoro.

Un empresario no permite que nada se interponga en su camino en la adquisición de un edificio de oficinas de 100 pisos.

Mary Evans es una camarera cuya amistad con Max Carey, un director de cine alcohólico, le permite relacionarse con peces gordos. De esta manera llama la atención del millonario Lonny Borden, un productor de Hollywood cansado de la vida de la costa este y de ser un segundón de Max. (FILMAFFINITY)

El doctor Felix Klauber es un médico que se crió en el seno de una familia judía en uno de los barrios más marginales de Nueva York. Gracias a su duro trabajo se ha convertido en un rico doctor de Park Avenue. Un día le llaman para que opere a su padre, Meyer Klauber, de un pequeño tumor, pero un error fatal acaba con la vida de éste.

A salesman tries to sell life insurance, hair tonic, and girth reducing exercise equipment and anything else to a man who doesn't want any of it.