Gertrude Lawrence

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

Primera versión cinematográfica de la obra teatral homónima de Tennessee Williams. Amanda Wingfield (Gertrude Lawrence), mujer madura que añora un pasado esplendoroso, es una madre obsesionada con que su “soñador egoísta” hijo Tom (Arthur Kennedy) haga una buena carrera y su tímida hija Laura (Jane Wyman) logre un buen matrimonio. La película se atiene bastante a la historia original, excepto por el final que tiene un giro más optimista.

Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Dakota (Terry), un soldado que está de permiso en Nueva York, visita la famosa Stage Door Canteen (título original del film), un local de Broadway donde célebres artistas entretenían a los soldados que volvían del frente. Dakota y sus amigos, Tex (Sunset Carson) y California (Lon McAllister), caen rendidos ante los encantos de Eileen (Cheryl Walker), Jean (Marjorie Riordan) y Ella Sue (Margaret Early). Artistas del calibre de Katharine Hepburn, Merle Oberon, George Raft, Johnny Weismuller, Ralph Bellamy o Harpo Marx llenan el local, en el que actúan las bandas de Xavier Cugat, Count Basie y Benny Goodman.

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

Actor Edmund Davey becomes a star overnight when his wife and co-star teams up with the secretary of a noted stage critic to produce a glowing review of his 'Othello'.

Película biográfica sobre el célebre pintor holandés. En 1642, habiendo alcanzado la cima de la fama, muere repentinamente su adorada esposa. Desde entonces su pintura es más oscura, pesimista y dramática, lo que disgusta a sus mecenas. En 1656 Rembrandt está arruinado, pero se consuela con la compañía de la bella Hendrickje, con la que no llega a casarse. Sin embargo esta relación extraconyugal lo condena al ostracismo, aunque también le proporciona algunos momentos de felicidad.

A young boy obsessed with trains sneaks out to play with the real trains that run just a few feet from the fence around his house. When he falls off of one and is knocked unconscious, he has a dream.

A struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate finds love that furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.

Un pequeño ratón hará todo lo posible por lograr su sueño: volar.

'Riviera. Professional co-respondents mistake one another for clients.' (British Film Catalogue)

In this drama the owner of a flower shop falls in love with one of her patrons. Unfortunately, he is married to a shrewish actress and cannot get out of the marriage. The distraught woman then leaves her shop to become a nurse. Trouble ensues when the actress suddenly appears, accuses the nurse of fooling around with her husband and dies leaving the nurse and the husband to be charged with murder. Fortunately, they are found innocent and they are free to fall in love at last.

Because his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than conducting business, Willie Tatham is forced to interrupt his honeymoon with his wife Margot in the south of France and return to London to get his father to sign an important contract. While Margot, an actress, goes to a small resort where she will not be recognized, Kitty Lake, one of the young women Lord Grenham pursues, flirts with Willie. Two weeks pass and when Willie tells Margot on the telephone that he must stay in town, she threatens to engage in a violent flirtation with the next attractive man she sees. Karl von der Heide, from Vienna, who is waiting to use the telephone, overhears her and begins a flirtation. She identifies herself to him as Mrs. Margaret Spaulding, and they pursue the beginnings of a romance until Margot suddenly returns home.

Gertrude Lawrence plays a singer in Paris during World War I. After stealing from Tony (Walter Petrie), an American artist, the two fall in love.