Donna Reed

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.

Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

A psycho is stalking the students at an exclusive girls' school.

A widow's life is thrown into turmoil by her hippie daughter, her rebellious teenage son, and an ill-starred love affair she is having with a much younger man -- and then a former suitor comes back into the picture.

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

Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno is a hired hand, Pepe, employed on a ranch. A boozing Hollywood director buys a white stallion that belongs to Pepe's boss. Pepe, determined to get the horse back (as he considers it his family), decides to take off to Hollywood. There he meets film stars including Jimmy Durante, Frank Sinatra, Zsa Zsa Gabór, Bing Crosby, Maurice Chevalier and Jack Lemmon in drag as Daphne from Some Like It Hot. He is also surprised by things that were new in America at the time, such as automatic swinging doors. When he finally reaches the man who bought the horse, he is led to believe there is no hope of getting it back. However, the last scene shows both him and the stallion back at the ranch with several foals.

On the French Riviera, movie producer Max Poulton is on location shooting a film starring his lover, Gina Bertini. But when the rueful Max ends his fling with Gina to return to his loyal wife, Carol, the jilted actress threatens to reveal details of their affair to Carol. Later, at a party at Max's villa, investigator Carliss arrives with news that Gina has been killed and that Max is a murderer suspect.

An American travels to East Africa, where he tries to find out how his brother died.

Jim Slater's father (whom he never knew) died in the Apache ambush at Gila Valley, and Jim is searching for the one survivor, who supposedly went for help but disappeared with a lot of gold. In the process, he gets several people gunning for him, and he keeps meeting liberated woman Karyl Orton, who may be on a similar mission. Renewed Apache hostilities and an impending range war provide complications.

시카고의 음악 교수로부터 클라리넷을 배우던 베니는 엄청난 재능에도 불구하고, 생계를 위해 벤 폴락의 유랑 밴드에서 일하기로 한다. 타고난 재즈 클라리넷 연주자 베니 굿맨의 삶을 다룬다.

A rich man (Glenn Ford) stuns his wife (Donna Reed) and town with a televised threat to his son's kidnapper.

Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.

Dr. Allen Seward is assigned to a western cavalry post where his predecessors had been drunks and slackers. The post doesn't take kindly to him either, especially after he disregards regulations and tends to sick Indians on the malaria-infested reservation. The Indians break away from the reservation to move to a healthier higher ground, and when they join with the Comanches to besiege the fort, Seward is branded as a "woodhawk", the bird that turns against its own. Donna Reed is present as the niece of the post commander; Phil Carey is a cavalry captain that believes the only good Indian is a dead Indian, and May Wynn is the white girl raised by the Indians and married to the chief's son.

After three years on the run, Jim Guthrie returns with the scar of a rope burn on his neck. In a flashback, we learn how he was framed for murder but then escaped from the lynch mob just as he was about to be hung. Tired of running, he has returned to find the real killer and the Sheriff has given him just three hours to do it.

Three individual stories that give an account of crucial moments in the lives of three different people: one is a young thief from Casablanca, another is an immigrant doctor brought to the United States and the third is a girl who survived the Holocaust. All three are given a chance to live with dignity and self-respect.

Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic ambition while supporting his new bride with a deadening job at a newspaper wire service. But when an old investment suddenly makes the family wealthy, their marriage begins to unravel — until a sudden tragedy changes everything.

캘리포니아에 가서 결혼 생활을 하려던 제니와 워런은 결혼식을 하려고 마차를 타고 가다 슬레이튼이란 무법자에게 강도를 당해 워런은 총에 맞아 쓰러지고 제니는 납치를 당한다. 여자를 끌고 가는 걸 못마땅하게 여기던 동료 제스는 슬레이튼에게 반항하다 사막에 묶이게 된다. 그러나 죽은 줄 알았던 워런은 죽지 않고 슬레이튼을 쫓고 이 와중에 제스와 슬레이튼에게 원한을 가지고 있는 인디언을 만나 함께 가게 된다. 결국 슬레이튼은은 여자와 제스를 맞바꾸자고 제안을 하고 워런은 그의 말에 따르지만 슬레이튼은 제스를 죽이고 이에 격분한 워런은 그를 끝까지 쫓아가 죽인다.

제2차 세계대전 직전 하와이에 전입온 이등병 프로이스는 권투 미들급 챔피언이었다. 하지만 그는 경기도중 상대가 눈을 멀어 다시는 권투를 하지 않으려고 하나, 중대장은 그를 시합에 뛰게 하려고 안달이다. 그런 프로이스를 이해하는 상사인 워든은 몰래 중대장의 부인 카렌과 밀회를 즐기고 있었다. 또한 프로이스와 친했던 안젤로가 영창 담당하사인 마지오에게 미움을 받아 죽자 그와 격투를 벌여 마지오는 죽고, 프로이스는 중상을 입어 술집에서 사귄 엘머의 집으로 피신하게 된다. 그때 라디오에서는 일본의 진주만 공습을 방송하고 군인들의 소집 명령을 내린다. 프로이스는 엘머의 만류를 뿌리치고 기지로 돌아갈 것을 결심한다. 아픈 몸으로 비틀대면서 가던 프로이스는 경비병에 의해 오인 사격을 받아 죽고 만다.

Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his own right, Harvey Miller is too nervous to play in front of a gallery, so he acts as coach and caddy for Joe Anthony, his girlfriend's brother.

After staging a mutiny and commandeering his own ship, famed pirate Barbarossa (John Payne) takes hostage a spirited Spanish noblewoman named Alida (Donna Reed), intending to trade her to her fiancé, Capt. Jose Salcedo (Gerald Mohr), for a handsome ransom. But Barbarossa falls in love with Alida, who meanwhile discovers that the roguish swashbuckler is more honorable than her erstwhile betrothed.

Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.

In 1865, a troop of Confederate soldiers led by Major Matt Stewart attack the wagon of gold escorted by Union cavalry and the soldiers are killed. The only wounded survivor tells that the war ended one month ago, and the group decides to take the gold and meet their liaison that knew that the war ended but did not inform the troop. The harsh Rolph Bainter kills the greedy man and the soldiers flee in his wagon driven by Major Stewart. When they meet a posse chasing them, Stewart gives wrong information to misguide the group; however, they have an accident with the wagon and lose the horses. They decide to stop a stagecoach and force the driver to transport them, but the posse returns and they are trapped in the station with the passenger. They realize that the men are not deputies and have no intention to bring them to justice but take the stolen gold.

A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.

A talented high school football player encounters trouble in a college program.

This short film takes a look at the off-screen personas of screen actors.

On Chicago's South Side reporter Ed Ames finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Ames comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so.

Thinking he may have caused the death of his commanding officer Captain Daniels in Tunisia, Rocky visits Daniels' widow. She falls for him, he falls for her, she encourages him to go to West Point. While there he faces serious disciplinary review for having forced a plebe into resigning. He may even be court-martialled.

Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie's daughter, Marguerite, and William fall in love. Marguerite's sister, Marianne, also loves William. Timothy, a lowly carpenter, secretly loves Marianne. He kills a man in a fight, and Edmund helps him flee to New Zealand. William deserts inadvertently from the navy, and also flees in disgrace to New Zealand, where he and Timothy start a profitable business. One night, drunk, William writes Octavius, demanding his daughter's hand; but, being drunk, he asks for the wrong sister.

조지 베일리는 베드폴드 마을 사람들을 위해 평생을 봉사하며 살아온 인물. 그는 항상 여행을 원했지만 마을 전체를 인수하려는 구두쇠 포터의 계략을 막기 위해서 그 기회를 버릴 수 밖에 없었다. 그를 저지하기 위해 그와 그의 아버지가 만든 대출회사는 애를 쓰지만, 크리스마스 이브에 빌리 삼촌이 사업비 8000달러를 은행에 예금하려던 중 돈을 잃어버린다. 포터는 돈의 위치를 알아내고 이를 숨긴다. 조지는 책임을 떠안고 감옥에 구속되고, 회사는 파산한다. 마침내 포터는 도시를 인수한 것이다. 사랑하는 아내, 자식 그리고 마을 사람들을 생각하며 조지는 자살을 생각하지만, 그의 앞에 수호천사 클라란스가 나타나는데...

A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge promotion where they used to work together - and has become engaged to another man.

1941년 12월, 일본의 침략에 맞서 필리핀을 방어하기 위해 존 브리클리 중위가 이끄는 어뢰정 부대가 마닐라로 급파된다. 하지만 존의 부대는 환영받기는커녕 주둔 부대의 놀림감이 된다. 작은 어뢰정은 도움이 되지 않는다며 존의 부대를 무시하고, 본부에 구축함을 요청하는 해군의 행태에 존의 부하 라이언은 분노한다. 그러나 일본군이 진주만을 습격했다는 비보가 전해지고, 곧 일본군의 공격이 시작되는데, 전투가 진행될수록 전장에서 효율적으로 움직이며, 효과적으로 적의 배를 공격해 침몰시키는 어뢰정의 활약이 돋보인다. 하지만 전투력에서나 수적으로나 열세였던 미군은 점점 수세에 몰리고, 섬을 일본군에 빼앗길 위기에 처한다. 2차 세계대전 당시 어뢰정(PT boats)을 몰고 참전했던 미 해군의 활약을 그리고 있는데, 제목에서 어뢰정 부대를 해군이 어떻게 생각했는지 알 수 있다. 병사들의 모습이나 전투 장면은 매우 사실적으로 느껴지며, 전쟁이 끝날 무렵 미국이 승리를 앞둔 시기에 만들었음에도 영화 속에는 패배의 어두운 그림자가 드리워져 있다.

1945년 MGM이 제작·배급하고, 앨버트 루윈(Albert Lewin)이 감독하였다. 조지 샌더스(George Sanders), 허드 해트필드(Hurd Hatfield), 앤젤러 랜즈버리(Angela Lansbury) 등이 출연하였으며, 상영시간은 110분이다. 영국의 세기말 문학을 대표하는 오스카 와일드 원작의 동명소설을 앨버트 루윈이 각색하여 영화화하였다. 내용은 원작과 마찬가지로 절세의 미남 도리언 그레이(허드 해트필드)가 변함없는 젊음을 유지하면서 쾌락에 빠진 생활을 하는 동안 그의 초상화가 대신 추악하게 늙어간다. 그레이가 죄악에 물든 삶에서 벗어나 새로운 출발을 하기 위하여 초상화를 칼로 베어 버리자 자신도 목숨을 잃고 만다. 이 작품은 2001년 미국영화연구소(AFI:American Film Institute)가 선정한 100편의 스릴 넘치는 영화 가운데 86위에 올랐다. 도리언 그레이를 사랑하다 자살하는 시빌 베인 역을 맡은 앤젤러 랜즈버리는 1946년 골든글로브상에서 여우조연상을 받았으며, 해리 스트래들링 시니어(Harry Stradling Sr.)는 아카데미상에서 흑백 부문 촬영상을 받았다. 한편, 1913년 미국의 필립스 스몰리(Phillips Smalley), 1915년 러시아의 프세볼로트 에밀리예비치 메이예르홀트(Vsevolod Emil'evich Meierkhol'd), 2002년 데이비드 로젠바움(David Rosenbaum) 등도 와일드의 소설을 원작으로 같은 제목의 영화를 연출하였다.

The Goss family live on a farm they call the dust bowl where the wind blows during the day and the coyotes howl at night. When the train is robbed, everyone thinks that Cotton and Violet were the ones that did the job, but no one has any proof. US Marshal Lloyd Richland comes into town in disguise to find the truth and he finds that the sheriff is corrupt and that the Goss family is gosh darn nice. They take in Richland and a stranded woman named Mary without any questions. Cotton believes that Sheriff Tatum shot their pa in the back, and the sheriff is now trying to plug the boys. Richland is looking for the train robbers, and at the same time is keeping an eye on Tatum and the lovely young Mary.

Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic training at Fort Bragg with the self-serving help of a couple of buddies intent on cutting themselves in on that extra income.

This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.

An Australian blowhard raises two orphaned children as his own in the years leading up to WWII.

In this 13th entry to the Dr. Kildare series, the medical staff of Blair General hospital are challenged with further dilemmas, not the least of which includes a prison inmate who Dr. Gillespie believes belongs instead in an insane asylum.

Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.

Acrobat Eddie Marsh is in the army now. His first act is to become friendly with Kathryn Jones, the colonel's pretty daughter. Their romance hits a few snags, including disapproval from her father. Eddie's also plagued by fear of having an accident during his family's trapeze act in the army variety show, which also features a gallery of MGM stars.

Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.

The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.

Dr. Kildare's friend Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.

A newlywed tries to deal with her troubled stepchild.

While Judge Hardy handles a couple's divorce, Andy takes a shine to their shy daughter.

An old-time cavalry sergeant's resistance to change could cost him his post.

In this "Romance of Celluloid", MGM showcases performers whose careers are just starting. Excerpts from their recently released films are included. The narrator says that moviegoers will have to decide whether these fledgling actors and actresses have that certain quality that made superstars out of MGM players Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, and Lana Turner.

Penny Morris and Tommy Williams are both starstruck young teens but nobody seems to give them any chance to perform. Instead, they decide to put up their own show to collect money for a summer camp for the kids.

High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.

A jailed cop befriends a mob chieftain and stages a breakout with him.