Self (archive footage)
Despite the many curious similarities between Susan Hayward and Lena Horne-both were born in Brooklyn on exactly the same day, for example-one detail set their careers on very different paths. This doc examines their parallel lives.
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This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
Dr. Maggie Cole
Maggie Cole is a research scientist who, after the sudden death of her husband, takes a position as an on-call doctor in an inner-city clinic. There, she must fight a battle on two fronts: against the medical conditions endangering her patients and against sexism toward a female doctor.
Elizabeth Reilly
Vaqueiro vê a família ser massacrada por bando de índios e ladrões de cavalos, liderados por dois homens brancos, que fogem para o México e escapam da polícia americana. O vaqueiro arregimenta seis fugitivos da prisão e parte para a vingança.
Jessie Fitzgerald
A woman attorney and her young associate defend a wealthy contractor accused of murdering an ironworker who was having an affair with the contractor's daughter.
Helen Lawson
Anne Welles (Barbara Parkins) é uma jovem formidável, brilhante e impetuosa que acaba de se formar na New England College e decide deixar sua cidade para tentar a vida na Broadway. Ela vai para Manhattan e espera encontrar um trabalho emocionante e homens sofisticados, mas lá ela vai descobrir que não é a única com esse sonho e que nem sempre a vida é justa.
Herself
The maiden cruise of the ocean liner Italia travels from Italy to California for the premiere of the motion picture "Valley of the Dolls."
Mrs. Sheridan
A millionaire fakes a terminal illness to fleece his former girlfriends.
Self (archive footage)
Ken Murray narrates his 16mm home movies shot over 35 years in Hollywood.
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A short film containing a collection of clips from various Hollywood movies.
Valerie Hayden Miller
A divorced couple's teen-age daughter stands trial for stabbing her mother's latest lover.
Laura Pember
A woman diagnosed with a brain tumor falls in love with her doctor. A reworking of the 1939 Bette Davis film "Dark Victory", director Daniel Petrie's 1963 film stars Susan Hayward.
Christine Allison
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has completed her sentence, the lawyer who prosecuted Christine, Stephen Dane, hires her to care for his emotionally unstable wife, Liane. Christine takes the job, but when Liane's allegedly dead father reappears, Christine sets out to reveal the family's dark secrets.
'Gone with the Wind' screen test (archive footage) (uncredited)
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.
Rae Smith
Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's a definite spark between them but circumstances intervene and he leaves town without her. Later she learns he's married. Determined to make it as a fashion designer, Rae moves to New York and becomes a great success. One day she happens to meet Paul again and again there's that spark but he's still married so, as a form of escape, Rae moves to Rome to set up shop. Once again she meets Paul and finally they begin an actual affair since Paul's shrewish, drunken wife, Liz, won't give him a divorce. Time passes, the affair continues whenever time and place permit, but then, Paul's young son finds out about Rae and Rae's back-street world begins to crumble.
Ada Gillis
A popular but naive country singer is elected governor of a southern state and, once in office, decides to dismantle the corrupt political machine that got him elected. Director Daniel Mann's 1961 political drama stars Susan Hayward, Dean Martin, Wilfred Hyde-White, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker, Connie Sawyer, William Walker, Ray Teal, Larry Gates and Kathryn Card.
Content Delville
An anthropology professor and his professor wife have the perfect marriage--until a Swedish colleague's daughter comes to visit. Not only is the little girl all grown up, but she's ready to start a family--with him!
Mary Sharron
After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drifting handyman, they fall in love, and a resentment begins to build between the son and his new "step-father" who treats the boy harshly on purpose to prepare him for life on the frontier.
Gabrielle Dauphin
A band of Basque immigrants treks through the Old West toward California, where they hope to put down roots and open wineries. When the group's leader dies, his widow Gabrielle marries his brother in accordance with Basque tradition. But it's a loveless union; Gabrielle is smitten with Lon Bennett, the scout who's been hired to guide them on their journey.
Barbara Graham
Uma prostituta, condenada à morte por assassinato, clama por sua inocência. Barbara Graham é uma mulher com padrões morais duvidosos, muitas vezes convidada para bares fuleiros. E já foi sentenciada por alguns pequenos crimes. Ela sabe que dois homens mataram uma velha mulher. Quando os dois são pegos, começam a pensar que Barbara ajudou a polícia a prendê-los. Como vingança, dizem à polícia que Barbara é a assassina.
Dorothy 'Dottie' Peale
A publisher uses her magazine and charm to derail a general on the Washington fast track.
Bortai
Do bilionário produtor Howard Hugues, Sangue de bárbaros tem um elenco com grandes estrelas, John Wayne e Suzan Hayard marcaram com grandes atuações esta mega produção épica sobre Genghis Khan. Seqüestrada por Temujin, a princesa tártara Bortai, o engana, fazendo-o desconfiar do seu irmão de sangue, Jamuga interpretado por Pedro Armendariz. Mas, após tantas desventuras, a princesa acaba se apaixonando pelo chefe mongol. Agnes Moorehead interpreta a mãe de Temujin e Thomas Gomes como Hunlun. Sangue de bárbaros foi filmado numa locação perto de Utah, perto de um local de testes atônicos, e teve um resultado trágico. Muitos atores do filme e pessoal da produção contraíram câncer e o primeiro a ficar doente foi o diretor Dick Powel. Apesar da tragédia no elenco, este é um filme marcante na história dos grandes épicos. Ação do começo ao fim.
Lillian Roth
Deprived of a normal childhood by her ambitious mother, Lillian Roth becomes a star of Broadway and Hollywood before she is twenty. Shortly before her marriage to her childhood sweetheart, David Tredman, he dies and Lillian takes her first drink of many down the road of becoming an alcoholic.
Katie O'Neill
Quando a grande fome da batata atinge a Irlanda, a diáspora começa quando milhares emigram. Entre os que saem da Emerald Isle estão Katie O'Neill e seu marido, que decidem que a terra prometida é a África do Sul e vão até lá. Uma vez lá, descobrem a dificuldade que é a realidade da experiência do migrante se assentar na nova terra. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Mrs. Jane Hoyt
O filme passado na China dos anos 50 conta a história do resgate de um preso americano dentro de uma prisão comunista. Um jornalista tenta ser salvo por sua mulher, que contratou um homem para realizar a operação. No entanto, com o passar do tempo, o salvador e a moça acabam se encantando.
Leah Fuller
Três americanos dirigem-se de navio à volta do cabo para os campos de ouro da Califórnia quando são colocados em terra durante várias semanas numa pequena aldeia mexicana adormecida. Enquanto lá estão, é-lhes oferecido o trabalho de seguir uma senhora até às montanhas infestadas de índios do México para salvar o marido das senhoras presas preso por um desmoronamento na sua mina de ouro. Para o trabalho são-lhes prometidos dois mil dólares cada. Enquanto cada uma contempla as suas próprias hipóteses de conseguir a dama e/ou a mina de ouro, se conseguirem sobreviver para desfrutar dela.
Messalina
Um escravo de força extraordinária é encarregado de proteger o manto que Cristo usou na cruz. Depois de ser capturado por Calígula, sua fé é testada quando ele é forçado a competições mortais na arena.
Ellen Burton
Ellen Burton arrives in Africa to join Dr. Mary as her nurse, bringing modern medicine to the native peoples. Lonni Douglas, an animal wrangler and fortune hunter, agrees to take her upriver, despite his misgivings about her suitability for Africa. They battle escaped gorillas, hostile natives, infected lion wounds, and hostile witch doctors to reach their destination and on the way, they fall in love. Will their contrasting interests doom their romance?
Rachel Donaldson
The story of president Andrew Jackson from his early years, through his meeting with and subsequent marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The plot concentrates on the later scandal concerning the legality of their marriage and how they overcame the difficulties.
Louise Merritt
Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers of this rough sport.
Helen Street
O escritor Harry Street (Gregory Peck), ferido gravemente durante um safári na África, aguarda a chegada de ajuda médica aos pés da montanha de Kilimanjaro, na África. Enquanto o auxílio não vem, ele relembra à esposa Helen (Susan Hayward) suas frustradas aventuras amorosas e seus fracassos como escritor. Em estado delirante, ele revive seu único romance verdadeiro, com Cynthia Green (Ava Gardner), cuja paixão ele deixou escapar devido à obsessão em viajar pelo mundo em busca de temas para seus livros.
Jane Froman
Depois de conseguir um emprego cantando no rádio, Jane Froman se casa com o acompanhante musical Don Ross. Sob a administração de Don, Jane sobe ao estrelato e é convidada a se apresentar para as tropas durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. No caminho, seu avião cai, deixando Jane com ferimentos graves nas pernas. Em recuperação, Jane começa um romance com John Burn, um piloto militar ferido. Ela pretende voltar a cantar, mas com dois homens em seu coração, a vida é cada vez mais complicada. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
Bathsheba
Após ver a linda Betsabá se banhar, o rei David se apaixona e descobre que ela é casada com Uriah, um destemido soldado. David manda Uriah para uma batalha perdida e, ao negligenciar seu reino e sua fé, provoca a ira de Deus.
Harriet Boyd
A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her profession. Eventually she is forced to choose between her ambition and the man she loves.
Vinnie Holt
No Velho Oeste, o jovem Tom Owens trabalha como assistente numa distante estação de comboios, ponto de parada das diligências que fazem aquele percurso. A chegada de uma quadrilha liderada por Rafe Zimmerman, que pretende assaltar um carregamento de 100 mil dólares em ouro que chegará à estação no dia seguinte, cria um ambiente de tensão e medo. Feitos reféns pelo belos bandidos, Tom e Vinnie, uma passageira da última diligência, precisam encontrar uma maneira de escapar e evitar o crime.
Mary Elizabeth Eden Thompson
A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends to the spiritual and emotional needs of his small flock.
Eloise Winters
After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers her time with her true love, Walt Dreiser, at the beginning of the Second World War. She recalls the events that lead up to her split with Mary Jane, and how Lew married Eloise rather than Mary Jane.
Irene Bennett
Gino Monetti (Edward G. Robinson) é um banqueiro ítalo-americano que trata sem muita consideração seus quatro filhos, que já são adultos. Gino participou de várias atividades ilegais para construir seu negócio e agora está preso. Embora os filhos sempre estivessem sabendo dos negócios questionáveis do pai, eles lhe recusam ajuda para ficar fora de prisão. Liderados por Joe Monetti (Luther Adler), o filho mais velho, três dos filhos assumem o negócio. Apenas Max Monetti (Richard Conte) se mantém leal ao seu pai, em razão disto seus três irmãos conspiram e Max também é mandado para a cadeia. Max promete ao agonizante Gino que irá se vingar dos seus traiçoeiros filhos, mas quando ele é libertado não consegue se vingar, nem mesmo depois que um dos seus irmãos, Tony (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.), tenta matá-lo. Max deixa seus irmãos e ruma para a Califórnia para ter uma nova vida com Irene Bennett (Susan Hayward), sua noiva.
Cherokee Lansing
It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.
Janet Busch
In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him but his latest protégé, novelist Eric Busch, finally stands-up to him.
Morna Dabney
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, Tap Roots is all about a county in Mississippi which chooses to secede from the state rather than enter the conflict. The county is protected from the Confederacy by an abolitionist and a Native American gentleman. The abolitionist's daughter is courted by a powerful newspaper publisher when her fiance, a confederate officer, elopes with the girl's sister. The daughter at first resists the publisher's attentions, but turns to him for aid when her ex-fiance plans to capture the seceding county on behalf of the South.
Tina Bordereau
In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared mysteriously. Using a false name, Lewis Venable rents a room from Juliana Bordereau, once Jeffrey Ashton's lover, now an aged recluse. Running the household is Juliana's severe niece, Tina, who mistrusts Venable from the first moment. He realizes all is not right when late one night he finds Tina, her hair unpinned and wild, at the piano. She calls him Jeffrey and throws herself at him. The family priest warns Venable to tread carefully around her fantasies, but he wants the letters at any cost, even Tina's sanity.
Verna Carlson
On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.
Angie Evans
A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.
Lucy Overmire
O homem de negócios, Logan Stuart (Dana Andrews), está escoltando a noiva de seu amigo, Lucy Overmire (Susan Hayward), de volta para sua casa na distante cidade de Jacksonville, no Oregon. No trajeto de sua dura jornada Lucy se sente atraída por Logan cujo coração parece pertencer a outra pessoa.
June Goffe
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
Janice Blair
Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't work. Her sister is carrying on an affair with her fiance Jeff. Vance tries a new serum which causes Emily to faint... Will it work this time?
Mildred Douglas
Aboard ship, a spoiled woman (Susan Hayward) insults the brutish stoker (William Bendix) while watching him work.
Molly Miller
Promotional short extolling the virtues of the American government's wartime Economic Stabilization Plan.
Constance Chesley
Na WW2 no Pacífico trabalhadores da construção civil são necessários para construir instalações militares, mas o trabalho é perigoso e eles duvidam da capacidade da Marinha para protegê-los. Depois de uma série de ataques por parte dos japoneses algo novo é tentado, os Batalhões de Construção, em inglês Construction Battalions (CBs = Seabees) Abelhas do Mar. O novo batalhão tem tanto que construir quanto estar pronto para lutar.
Charmian Kittredge
The adventurous and remarkable life of the US writer Jack London (1876-1916).
Jill Wright
When amateur songwriter Jill Wright moves from the Midwest to New York City, she is dismayed to discover that Rick Farrell, the owner of Miracle Publishing Co., has claimed as his own the song she submitted to his company. One of the many films made at Republic with a year attached to the "Hit Parade" title, which came from the "Hit Parade" radio program sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes.
Kate Benson
For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' films during the war years, this is another one of the Paramount productions that was sold to United Artists in the early-40's when U.A. was having trouble meeting their exhibitor contracts because of lack of product, mainly due to their loss of production in England. A group of starving, but young and willing, actors band together to share finances and an apartment. Norman Reese (William Holden) orders no love nonsense between the boys and girls till they are set on broadway, but Marge Benson (Barbara Britton) and Tony Dennison (James Beown) are already secretly married. A friend drops in to see Dottie Coburn (Martha O'Driscoll) and is shocked to find the boys and girls sharing the same apartment and insists it is her duty to inform Dottie's father (Jay Fassett.)
Estelle Masterson
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.
Tana 'Butch' Mason
Ranger Don Stuart fights a forest fire with timber boss friend Tana 'Butch' Mason, and finds evidence of arson. He suspects Twig Dawson but can't prove it. Butch loves Don but he, poor fool, won't notice her as a woman; instead he meets socialite Celia in town and elopes with her. The action plot (Don's pursuit of the fire starter) parallels Tana's comic efforts to scare tenderfoot Celia back to the city.
A soldier pleads to the folks to home to conserve scarce wartime resources.
Drusilla Alston
Loxi é a jovem empresária que cuida de uma empresa de manutenção de barcos. O negócio é muito lucrativo, uma vez que a costa da Flórida em 1840 possui águas rasas e coberta de corais. Quando resgata um navio bastante danificado, Loxi conhece o capitão Jack Stuart, por quem se apaixona. A ponto de lutar ao lado do amado para convencer os proprietários do barco que Stuart não teve nenhuma culpa nos estragos. O romance entre eles estará em risco quando o advogado contratado por ela, Stephen Tolliver, também se apaixona pela moça.
Genevieve in Priorities Skit
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade. Things get more complicated when Pop agrees to put together a show for the Navy starring Paramount's top contract players.
Millie Pickens
Um homem mentalmente instável, que foi mantido em isolamento por anos, escapa e causa problemas para seu irmão gêmeo idêntico.
Carol Hopkins
An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.
Hester Stoddard
Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Emilie even more. At the same time, Emilie falls in love with Adam. The boys grow up, but Adam insists that Emilie stay on as part of the family. Her relationships with both the boys and Adam become strained after one son marries a gold-digging viper named Hester. Written by Daniel Bubbeo
Betty McGlen
A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.
Judith Schofield
Lem Schofield, a lawyer in a one-time small-town turned industrialized big city, runs his firm on examples set by Abraham Lincoln and is a friend to the poor. Clay Clinton, his late partner's son joins the firm but is anxious for fast success and considers Schofield's old-fashioned principles antiquated. Being in love with Schofield's daughter and impatient for success he moves to offices supplied by the city's most powerful industrialist, J.T. Tapley, who has plans to use Clay's good family lineage as a stepping stone to political power. The unscrupulous Tapley precipitates a strike in his factory mill which causes a rupture between the former partners. Schofield sets out to bring Tapley and his political henchmen to justice.
Isobel Rivers
Michael "Beau" Geste deixa a Inglaterra depois de acontecimentos que o deixaram frustrado, e se junta a infame Legião Estrangeira Francesa. Lá, ele se reúne com seus dois irmãos no norte da África, onde enfrentam mais perigo com seu comandante sádico do que com os árabes rebeldes.
Amateur Actress (uncredited)
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
Gloria Adams
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
Starlet at Table (uncredited)
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.