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.

Um americano viaja para o leste da África, buscando descobrir como seu irmão morreu.

O pai de Jim Slater morreu na emboscada Apache em Gila Valley, e o rapaz nunca o conheceu. Ele agora está buscando o único sobrevivente do massacre, que supostamente despareceu com um monte de ouro. No caminho, ele acaba com várias pessoas à sua caça, e encontra repetidamente a liberal Karyl Orton, que parece estar um uma missão semelhante à sua. Mas um novo rompante Apache e uma iminente guerra poderão atrapalhar seus planos.

Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny begins by joining the Ben Pollack traveling band.

Quando seu filho Andy é sequestrado e mantido para o resgate, David Stannard liquida seus bens para atender a demanda de meio milhão de dólares. Uma observação casual por repórter de jornal Charlie Telfer faz com que ele mudasse de idéia. Apesar dos apelos de sua esposa Edith e irmão e a condenação resultante da imprensa e do público, Stannard vai em um programa de televisão em todo o país, mostra o dinheiro e avisa o seqüestrador que não um centavo será pago para o resgate; em vez disso, o dinheiro será usado para rastrear o sequestrador se Andy não é devolvido ileso. A polícia então encontrar camisa manchada de sangue do rapaz.

Virgínia, 1803. Depois que os Estados Unidos da América adquirem da França o vasto território da Louisiana, uma grande expedição, liderada por William Lewis e Meriwether Clark, é enviada para explorar as novas terras e ir aonde nenhum homem branco foi antes.

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.

Charles Wills (Van Johnson) é um escritor que volta a Paris para reencontrar a filha, criada pela cunhada, Marion Matine (Donna Reed). Lá ele relembra Helen Ellswirth (Elizabeth Taylor), o grande amor da sua vida, que ele conheceu em Paris quando a 2ª Guerra Mundial terminou na Europa. Charles recorda que trabalhava como jornalista no "Star and Stripes", tendo logo se apaixonado por Helen e em pouco tempo estavam casados. Porém ele recebia um pequeno salário, assim dedicou suas noites para escrever um romance, que foi rejeitado por vários editores. Quando ele tinha perdido todo o ânimo surge uma boa notícia: poços de petróleo no Texas, que lhe foram dados pelo sogro, James Ellswirth (Walter Pidgeon), quase como uma brincadeira, pois nada produziram e de repente se tornaram bem produtivos.

Raoul Walsh , o afamado mestre de ação centra-se no herói, o veterano da Guerra Civil Ben Warren (Rock Hudson). Ben não suporta ver mais sangue derramado e ruma para Oeste com a sua noiva (Donna Reed) para reconstruir a sua vida. Porém, o seu comportamento pacífico é posto a prova quando um fora-da-lei (Phil Carey) e sua gang (incluindo Lee Marvin, Corrupção) raptam a sua futura esposa.

O filme relata histórias de vidas em um campo do exército americano no Havaí, às vésperas do ataque japonês à Pearl Harbor. Centraliza as ações acompanhando os conflitos de três militares da base. Roteiro baseado num livro de James Jones.

Embora fosse filho de um hábil jogador, Harvey Miller (Jerry Lewis) sempre se sentiu muito nervoso em competir. Por isso ele preferiu se tornar técnico e caddy de Joe Anthony (Dean Martin), que precisa convencer o pai pescador que bater numa bola e encaçapá-la no buraco pode ser mais lucrativo. Mas quando os dois estão disputando o torneio, suas habilidades cômicas tão naturais chamam a atenção de um empresário. É meio caminho andado para o nascimento de dois astros.

O pirata Barbarossa, liberta um grupo de prisioneiros espanhóis e os transforma em sua tripulação. Em um novo ataque, ele faz refém a condessa Alida.

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.

Nesta produção, Scott está maravilhoso, mas seu papel não é de herói, ele é o Major Matt, o líder de um grupo de ex-soldados Confederados. O filme inicia com Matt e seu grupo atacando um carregamento de ouro da União - apesar da guerra ter acabado há um mês. Sabendo que ele e seu pelotão poderiam ser enforcados por assassinato, Matt decide levar alguns reféns. O filme não é tão previsível quanto soa, entretanto a relação de Matt com um dos reféns (Donna Reed) é um pouco diferente. Felizmente, a química interpretativa entre os dois astros, faz a relação deles se destacar na trama. Em termos de ação o filme é fantástico. O Laço do Carrasco é uma pérola do gênero, uma das belas obras da filmografia de Scott.

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.

Com tanto problemas a atormentá-lo, George Bailey está decidido em acabar com tudo de vez, embora seja véspera Natal. Enquanto os Anjos conversam sobre George, a sua vida passa em retrospectiva. Mas quando George está prestes a saltar de uma ponte, é salvo por Clarence, o seu Anjo da Guarda, que lhe mostra como seria a cidade se ele não tivesse feito tantas coisas boas. Será que Clarence consegue convencer George a regressar à sua família e esquecer o suicídio?

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.

Um relato dramatizado do papel dos barcos americanos PT na defesa das Filipinas durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Pouco depois de Pearl Harbor, um esquadrão de tripulantes de Torpedeiros PT na Filipinas tem de lutar contra a burocracia da Marinha entre escaramuças com os japoneses. O título diz tudo sobre a atitude da Marinha para com as PTs e suas tripulações.

Posing for a portrait, Dorian Gray talks with Lord Henry Wotton, who says that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the young get to do so. Taken with the idea, Dorian imagines a scenario in which the painting will age as he stays youthful. His wish comes true, and his boyish looks aid him as he indulges his every whim. But when a stunning revelation forces him to see what he's become, Dorian faces some very dangerous questions.

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.