Melvyn Douglas

A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers successfully used improbable methods to capture the Finnish television signal, a window into Western popular culture, brave but harmless warriors who helped change the fate of an entire nation.

This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed commentary delivered on camera by Kathleen Turner. Turner walks us through Loy's career as a dancer and an actress miscast as an exotic. She comes into her own as a grown-up women: shrewd, funny, decorous, and sexy - in "Manhattan Melodrama" and "The Thin Man." Her volunteer work during World War II, later stage work, and progressive politics come in for admiration as well. It's her style - seen best in her roles as a wife of charm and independence - that's captured and celebrated here.

This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.

A man comes home after serving time in prison to claim his share of his deceased mother's estate. However, his stepfather, who holds him responsible for his own son's death, intends to fight him for everything.

A master art forger and his partner in crime, an art expert who can vouch for the authenticity of the forgeries, are making a bundle. An art dealer figures out their scheme but agrees to keep quiet if they forge some art lost in WWII.

Numa pequena cidade, quatro envelhecidos amigos de infância participam de um grupo em que contam histórias fantasmagóricas. Mas um fantasma verdadeiro, vindo diretamente do passado dos quatro senhores, ressurge para assombrá-los e também à nova geração: seus filhos.

Touching story of elderly couple David and Eva who go on one last journey across the USA when they discover Eva is dying, ending up with their granddaughter Jeannie in San Francisco. Restored in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.

Desde a trágica morte de sua família, o compositor John Russell abandonou Nova York e agora vive numa casa solitária na esperança de continuar compondo e encontrar a paz. Enquanto aprecia o silêncio e solidão de sua nova residência, começa a ver constantemente o corpo de um rapaz. Em suas andanças pela casa, descobre uma entrada secreta para um antigo quarto de criança que permanecia esquecido.

Jardineiro simplório chamado Chance cresce fechado na casa do patrão, e quando ele morre é posto na rua. Sem saber nada do mundo além do que via pela TV, ele acaba ficando amigo de homem influente, que confunde sua inocência com sabedoria.

Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well as further straining his already part-time family life. But it could be a big boost to his career, so he takes it on. Helping him prepare the case is pretty southern researcher Karen Traynor, and their developing relationship further complicates and compromises his life.

The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife.

The story of a gentle and loving grandfather who encourages his grandson's ambition to be a painter.

Um general renegado da USAF, Lawrence Dell, escapa de uma prisão militar e assume um silo de míssil ICBM perto de Montana e ameaça provocar a 3ª Guerra Mundial, a menos que o presidente revele detalhes de uma reunião secreta realizada logo após o início da Guerra do Vietnã entre Dell e os então conselheiros mais confiáveis do presidente. 3 versões de montagem: 146 min - Original 123 min - Suécia 91 min - França

Um polonês tenta alugar um apartamento em um estranho edifício francês, mas é visto com desconfiança pelo proprietário. Ao descobrir que a última inquilina do apartamento onde morará se suicidara, ele aos poucos passa a ficar obcecado por sua história. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

É a sequência de Era Uma Vez em Hollywood, de 1974. A produção mostra uma retrospectiva dos principais filmes produzidos pela MGM dentre os períodos de 1930 a 1950. Neste segundo documentário, arquivistas destacaram números musicais pouco conhecidos dos arquivos da MGM, e também tributos a alguns dos times de comédia mais famosos da MGM, como os Irmãos Marx, e Laurel e Hardy, duplas românticas como Spencer Tracy e Katharine Hepburn, e uma montagem de estrelas icônicas como Clark Gable, Mickey Rooney, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, James Stewart, Lana Turner e Greta Garbo. Gene Kelly e Fred Astaire apresentam o filme e Kelly dirigiu as cenas introdutórias, como a volta dele à Paris, na qual foi rodada dois dos filmes mais famosos da MGM "Sinfonia de Paris" e "Gigi".

An attorney comes out of retirement to defend a prominent doctor, who has been accused of the mercy killing of his wife.

When petty criminals start turning up murdered, a detective discovers they are being killed by a group of his fellow officers who think the criminals were treated too leniently by the courts.

A ten-year-old Israeli boy whose father died years earlier during the Six-Day-War is determined to find out more about his father's death. He skips school and, with the help of a friendly cab driver, heads to Jerusalem to find the men who fought with his father's unit and learn the exact circumstances. During the drive from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the cabbie provides a history of the establishment of the Jewish state

Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.

A young woman has difficulty understanding why her husband walks out on her. Alone for the first time, she finds life difficult to cope with and for a time lives with the hope that her husband will come back to her.

Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman.

Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. Just before the wedding, the mother dies. Hackman's sister (who has been disowned by their father for marrying a Jewish man) advises him to live his own life, and not let himself be controlled by their father.

Um dos pacientes em um grupo de terapia revela-se um assassino.

Landmark adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards.

This is the story of the clocklike movements of a giant, big city New Orleans hotel. The ambitious yet loyal manager wrestles with the round-the-clock drama of its guests. A brazen sneak thief, who nightly relieves the guests of their property, is chased through the underground passages of the hotel. The big business power play for control of the hotel and the VIP diplomat guest with a secret add to the excitement.

A young man, Bert Cates, is arrested in a small Bible Belt town for teaching the theory of Evolution in the public school. Two of the finest legal minds in the U.S. are called to the trial: Henry Drummond for the defense, and Matthew Harrison Brady for the prosecution. The trial proceeds on three levels, the guilt or innocence of Cates, the issue of the Bible vs. Darwin, and finally, the personal confrontation between Drummond and Brady.

Short film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson.

Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union.

Durante a preparação para o Dia D em 1944, os britânicos estavam com sua ilha hospedando muitos milhares de soldados americanos que "ansiavam por garotas, tinham muita grana e estavam por aqui". Assim exatamente é Charlie Madison; ele conhece todas as formas de tornar a vida mais suave para si mesmo e se possível livre de risco. Mas as coisas se complicam quando ele se apaixona por uma Mulher Inglesa e seu comandante têm um colapso nervoso o que leva Charlie a ser enviado em uma missão insensata e perigosa.

Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.

Hud Bannon é um jovem implacável que mancha tudo e todos os que ele toca. Hud representa a encarnação perfeita da juventude alienada, pronto para brigar sem levar em conta as consequências. Há um amargo conflito entre o insensível Hud e seu severo e cheio de princípios pai, Homer. Lon, seu sobrinho, admira os truques e trapaças de Hud, embora logo se perceba que a amoralidade imprudente de Hud não o sustentaria. No mundo dos ganhadores e perdedores Hud é um vencedor. Ele é um trapaceiro, mas, ele explica: "Eu sempre digo que a lei deveria ser interpretada de maneira indulgente". (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

Billy Budd (Terence Stamp) é um marinheiro inocente e ingênuo da Marinha Britânica em 1797. Quando o sádico mestre de armas do navio é assassinado, Billy é acusado e julgado. O H.M.S. Vingador está indo para a batalha contra a frota francesa durante as Guerras Napoleônicas, e a sombra escura de dois recentes motins na frota inglesa preocupa o capitão Vere (Sir Peter Ustinov). Ele confia em seu cruel e muitas vezes sádico mestre de armas John Claggert (Robert Ryan) para manter o que ele acredita ser ordem e disciplina a bordo do navio. Quando um novo marinheiro, Billy Budd (Terence Stamp), é pressionado a prestar serviço, sua atitude inocente e feliz rapidamente conquista seus companheiros e os oficiais. No entanto, isso parece incomodar Claggert, que fica ressentido, especialmente após a promoção de Billy ao posto de Capitão do Cesto de Gávea. Então Claggert planeja injustamente denunciá-lo e, por fim, mente quando acusa Billy de conspirar com motim. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s.

After years of living in her selfish parents' (Melvyn Douglas and Lynn Bari) egotistical shadows, desperate teenager Jill Bradley (Joan Evans) makes a last-ditch play for attention by attempting suicide. Jill's guilt-ridden father tries at last to help her and to cheer her up but new problems

An 1890s New Orleans heiress tries to buy a married doctor's love with her tainted family fortune.

A young man succumbs to gambling fever.

A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, younger singer, Susan Caldwell, to temporarily replace Marian. Susan finds some early acclaim but decides to leave the club after a few performances. Soon after Susan quits, she is gunned down, and Marian quickly becomes a suspect.

Following World War II, a woman tries to help her fiance understand his son's traumatic experience as a G.I., during which he lost a leg and was imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp.

An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.

A St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war.

When his wife threatens him with divorce, a reporter courts her again.

Margaret Drew runs her trucking company single-mindedly, if not ruthlessly. The only thorn in her side is writer Michael Holmes who is writing a book on some of her tough ways. With no time for men, the effect an attractive stranger has on her at her sister's wedding is unnerving. When it turns out this is the hated writer, she starts seriously to lose her bearings. Surely it can't become Maggie and Mike?

A penniless former princess weds an equally cash-strapped baron, so they support themselves by becoming houseguests at the homes of wealthy American socialites.

A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.

A musician's ex-wife wants him back after he finds love and success.

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

A happily married woman sees a psychoanalyst and develops doubts about her husband.

Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.

Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!

Set in Paris, this romantic comedy revolves around the beautiful estranged wife of a wealthy banker who hides a handsome and fiery Communist fugitive in her apartment.

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Hattie McDaniel, Fay Bainter, Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, and more, with host Bob Hope.

Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.

Nina Yakushova (Greta Garbo), comissária do governo soviético, é mandada a Paris para averiguar o comportamento de três representantes do governo que têm como missão negociar uma jóia. Aos poucos sucumbe ao capitalismo e a Leon d'Algout (Melvyn Douglas), um galanteador francês que está apaixonado por ela.

The Amazing Mr. Williams é um filme de 1939 estrelado por Melvyn Douglas como o tenente de polícia Kenny Williams, que anda ocupado demais resolvendo crimes para passar um tempo com sua noiva Maxine Carroll, interpretada por Joan Blondell.

The four Westmore brothers work their make-up magic on a variety of Hollywood stars.

Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at the time. Such as The Women, Thunder Afloat, Siren of the Tropics, Ninotchka, Northwest Passage, and At the Circus.

Ice skating is the theme; at the Tropical Ice Garden, in Westwood Hills, are seen a flock of skating stars including Irene Dare and Phyllis Ann Thomoson, as well as Hollywood luminaries such as Franklyn Pangborn, Norma Shearer, Rita Hayworth, Mickey Rooney, Dick Purcell and Ann Sheridan.

Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when Bill's prying wife wants to help catch the crook.

A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.

Dashing reporter Vincent Bullit has just returned from covering the Spanish Civil War. His boss, newspaper magnate Fullerton, has more plans to send him off to China. However, first Fullerton invites Bullit to the peace and quiet of his own home to write a series of European affair articles. When Fullerton's adolescent daughter Alice develops a crush on Bullit, her suitor, boyscout Ken Warren, doesn't seem to stand a chance. Mr. and Mrs. Fullerton, Ken Warren, and even Vincent Bullit himself do their best to sway young Alice's feelings away from the older man. It's a difficult task though, as she is at 'that certain age.'

Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.

A Southern belle finds herself torn between two suitors.

Um investigador do escritório do promotor público sai para abrir sua própria agência de detetives. No entanto, os negócios vão tão mal que ele finalmente decide desistir e voltar ao seu antigo emprego. Quando sua esposa está fechando o escritório, uma rica senhora da sociedade entra com um caso: ela quer saber se seu marido está tendo um caso com a ex-namorada, que agora está casada. A esposa aceita o que parece ser um caso fácil, imaginando que poderá então persuadir o marido a reiniciar a agência. No entanto, quando o marido da cliente é encontrado morto, ela decide investigar o crime ela mesma. Seu marido também foi designado pelo D.A. para investigar o assassinato, e ele não sabe que sua esposa também está no caso. As coisas se complicam. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)

Uma mulher e um homem competindo pelo afeto de uma mulher: o trio amoroso de sempre? Não é bem assim, já que a bela em questão é Lorraine de Grissac, uma mulher muito rica e atraente da sociedade, enquanto uma das duas rivais não é outra senão Arsène Lupin, a famosa ladra de joias que todos pensavam estar morta, agora vivendo sob o nome falso de René Farrand. Quanto ao outro pretendente, é um americano, ex-F.B.I. O detetive virou detetive particular com o nome de Steve Emerson. Steve não apenas suspeita que Farrand seja Lupin, mas quando alguém tenta roubar um precioso colar de esmeraldas do tio de Lorraine, o Conde de Brissac, ele é persuadido que Lupin é o culpado. Emerson está certo ou errado? Qual dos dois homens conquistará o coração de Lorraine?

Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he'd be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.

Uma mulher e seu marido tiram férias separadas e ela se apaixona por outro homem.

Harvey Cheyne é uma criança rica e mimada, acostumada a fazer tudo do seu próprio jeito. Quando uma brincadeira dá errado a bordo de um transatlântico Harvey acaba caindo ao mar e quase se afoga. Felizmente, ele é pego por um barco que acabou de sair para a temporada de pesca. Ele tenta subornar a tripulação para voltar mais cedo e ganhar uma recompensa, mas nenhum deles acredita nele. Encalhado no barco ele deve adaptar-se ao jeito dos pescadores e aprender mais sobre o mundo real. Adaptação do romance de Rudyard Kipling.

Kay Denham is off for a fling in Paris, leaving her suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into a junket to Switzerland, but George (with no illusions about his friend) appoints himself chaperone. Through a series of slapstick winter sports, Kay remains puzzled about George's disapproval of Gene...but there's a reason.

A girl with a reputation falls for a wealthy playboy.

The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really Theodora Lynn, scion of the town's leading family. Michael Grant, devil-may-care book jacket illustrator, penetrates Theodora's incognito and sets out to 'free her' from Lynnfield against her will. But Michael has a secret too, and gets a taste of his own medicine.

It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're in Washington. Peggy is pretty and politically aware. She is courted by several of those politicians and military men who all want to marry her, except for the one with who she is truly in love.

A bitter widow and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm. Although both have no intention of getting married again, they begin to fall for each other. Their children, however, are determined to see that the "romance" never gets off the ground and do everything they can to see that they are kept apart.

Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael Lanyard also known as the Lone Wolf once retired from the "trade" but relapses back into his old habits when he is tempted by the emerald pendant of beautiful socialite Marcia Stewart. The trouble (?) is that he falls for the belle and he soon gets more interested in getting the girl than the jewels that adorn her. What he wants now is to return the pendant but a rival gang interfere and force him to take part in a big-time caper.

A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.

Awkward Annie (Barbara Stanwyck) loves her sharpshooting rival (Preston Foster) in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.

Money was what gangster Vince M. Falcone wanted most and he did lay hands on millions of dollars by fair means or (mostly) foul. But once he became rich what he craved for was respectability. So why not marry a lovely society lady? And with a young daughter as a bonus Mister Falcone could show off among the creme de la creme. Of course when times got rough he felt free to desert his wife and little girl. Fortunately Taps, a lawyer working for the underworld, will console them both.

Friends uncover a dark secret when they compare notes about a theft and suicide.

A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is disrupted when a mysterious woman arrives.

A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.

A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.

When the villagers of Kleinschloss start dying of blood loss, the town fathers suspect a resurgence of vampirism. While police inspector Karl Brettschneider remains skeptical, scientist Dr. Otto von Niemann cares for the vampire's victims one by one, and suspicion falls on simple-minded Herman Gleib because of his fondness for bats. A blood-thirsty mob hounds Gleib to his death, but the vampire attacks don't stop.

Seeking shelter from a relentless rainstorm and landslides in a remote region of Wales, five travelers are admitted to a large foreboding old house that belongs to the extremely strange Femm family. Sepulchral Horace Femm and his obsessive, inhospitable sister Rebecca are the group's peculiar hosts. The house also holds surprises - and a brutish mute manservant named Morgan.

Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno, claiming that her memory was destroyed during World War I. Zara doesn't remember but leaves with Tony to Salter's dismay. Bruno, now an officer in the Italian Army, tries to coax Maria's memory back on his large estate. No one is really sure if Zara is Maria, and when Salter shows up with a mental case from Trieste that he claims is the real Maria, everyone on Bruno's estate is desperately searching for the truth.

In a little Mexican village by the American border. However powerful big shot Captain Innocencio (a misnomer indeed!)is, he proves unable to charm Lolita, the shapely daughter of his neighbor, a big-time rancher. Lolita expects better than this awkward unprepossessing showoff! Besides the fortune-teller she consults tells her her true love will get into her life after a terrible storm. This very night a violent storm does break out and an American pilot, whose plane is caught in it, is forced to make an emergency landing next to where she lives. The gringo - by the name of Phil Marvin - is both dashing and good-looking. Good news for Lolita but bad news for Innocencio who is not ready to bow that easily...

A young woman goes undercover to gather evidence to free her boyfriend, an attorney who has been framed for a murder he didn't commit.

A woman joins her fiance at a Malaysian prison camp only to discover he's become an alcoholic.

A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.