June Allyson

As Hollywood biographies go, Judy Garland's story is one of the saddest success stories you'll ever hear. The sanitized studio version of her life presented a smiling kid with the big voice, who, alongside Mickey Rooney, just wanted to put on a show. But drugs, overwork, even psychological abuse at the hands of the studio is now part of the Garland legend. But despite the number of Garland books and documentaries, one account has always been missing -- Garland herself never managed to write a memoir. She did make several attempts at an autobiography, often recording stories on a tape recorder. Judy Garland: By Myself (2004), finally fills in the blanks - using Judy's personal recordings to tell the story in her own words.

Três atrizes já idosas vêem um de seus filmes antigos inesperadamente virar um sucesso cult, e três lendas hollywoodianas aceitam se reencontrar. O problema é que elas se detestam.

Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne interviews June Allyson on her career as MGM's resident "girl next door."

Faye Dunaway hosts a behind-the-scenes look at the Hollywood star-making machine.

Algumas das estrelas musicais da MGM revisam a história dos musicais dos estúdios. De 'The Hollywood Revue' de 1929 a ' A Lenda dos Beijos Perdidos' de 1954. Dos primeiros talkies musicais a Gene Kelly em 'Cantando na Chuva' de 1952.

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

Andy LeBeau is a fallen angel of sorts. He keeps messing up and causing trouble in angel training. The archangel, Michael, decides to give him one more shot. His mission: Help out the problems of three cases. First, the Desautel family, who are on the edge of breaking up. Then, the McNulty family, who are workaholics. Finally, Dorothea Powell who is a secluded, grumpy old woman. Andy's guide on earth is Blake, who is none too thrilled to work with Andy.

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers payed up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.

A black comedy of violent criminals who terrorize apartment dwellers during New York's 1977 power blackout.

The adventures and mishaps of four couples, winners on a TV game show, along with their young chaperone, on a Hawaiian holiday.

Tony Franciosa plays a detective who's on the trail of a murderer whose mutilated and predominantly male victims are found encased in silken cocoons...

Documentário que traça um panorama dos musicais no cinema desde a década de 20 até os anos 50, e traz entrevistas com algumas das estrelas do gênero.

Three letters, whose delivery has been delayed by a year, change the lives of the people to whom they were addressed.

Kidnappers making a ransom demand dial a wrong number and reach a struggling actor instead. He decides to cut himself in for some of the money.

An enigmatic young woman has been murdered in a small California coast town. The investigation by the local sheriff uncovers a complex web of relationships centering on the victim; the scattered trail of evidence ranges from a mysterious photograph to the victim's own dog. During the investigation, the sheriff meets and becomes romantically involved with a woman whose connection to the murder is ambiguous.

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

An Air Force pilot finds romance with his war buddy's widow.

A young woman touring Germany is caught between a married symphony conductor and a doctor from back home.

The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and noticing his obviously good manners, gets him the job. He proves a great success, but keeps his past to himself. When an old flame turns up Irene's sister Cordelia starts making waves.

Former radio singer Kay learns from her gossipy friends that her husband, Steve, has had an affair with chorus girl Crystal. Devastated, Kay tries to ignore the information, but when Crystal performs one of her musical numbers at a charity benefit, she breaks down and goes to Reno to file for divorce. However, when she hears that gold-digging Crystal is making Steve unhappy, Kay resolves to get her husband back. The Opposite Sex is a remake of the 1939 comedy The Women.

A reporter stumbles on a runaway heiress whose story could salvage his career.

Os planos de Mac de se estabelecer e criar uma família, são interrompidos pela Guerra da Coreia. Ele vai como um piloto de caça e retorna como um herói, o primeiro Áz triplo da guerra. Seus vizinhos construíram um lar para Mac e sua dedicada esposa e seus três filhos. Então ele recebe uma oferta para ser o piloto de provas do novo Sabre Jets. Sua esposa fica apreensiva, mas sabe que não pode prender o seu homem.

O tenente-coronel Robert (Dutch) Holland foi um "terceira base" no St. Louis Cardinals, não um "pitcher". Enquanto na primavera uma formação de treinamento de B-36 sobrevoava o campo o holandês estava em pé na terceira base. Brewster era o reserva da terceira base quando foi novamente chamado ao dever. O filme mostra claramente isso.

Film version of Joseph Kramm's Pulitzer Prize play, about a Broadway playwright driven to a nervous breakdown by his shrewish wife.

Needing to fill the position of general manager of his company, and believing that an executive's wife is crucial to her husband's success, auto industry mogul Gifford brings three couples to New York to size up: Jerry and Carol: he hard-driven and self-reliant, she willing to use her beauty to further her husband's career; Sid and Elizabeth, he ulcer-ridden and torn between achieving success and restoring their troubled marriage, she positive that his job will kill him, but gamely agreeing to play the good wife for the duration; and down-to-earth Bill, whose good-natured Katie fears that his promotion would spell the end of their idyllic familiy existence.

Avery Bullard (Raoul Freeman), o presidente da Tredway Corporation, uma conhecida fábrica de móveis, morre repentinamente. Como ele não deixou claro quem seria o seu sucessor, o conselho executivo, formado por 7 pessoas, precisa se reunir rapidamente para encontrar um sucessor, pois como Avery faleceu na tarde de sexta-feira é importante que na segunda o mercado encontre a Tredway com novo presidente, para não desvalorizar as ações da empresa. O provável sucessor é Loren Phineas Shaw (Fredric Marsh), um frio homem de negócios que só pensa no lucro dos acionistas, sem se preocupar com a qualidade. Para impedi-lo de chegar à presidênciaé preciso encontrar logo alguém com idéias bem inovadoras, mas esta pessoa tem de ser uma das outras seis do conselho executivo, que se mostra dividido sobre qual o melhor caminho. Enquanto isso Shaw só precisa do seu voto e de mais três para se eleger.

O famoso artista Glenn Miller (James Stewart) começa cedo a escrever sua história. Nos anos 30, ele entra nos negócios musicais e enfrenta algumas dificuldades iniciais como o fracasso de sua primeira banda de estrada. No entanto, ele não desiste e mais tarde casa-se com Helen Burger (June Allyson), que o acompanhará na sua trilha para o sucesso.

A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.

A young Army nurse, Lt Ruth McGara, newly assigned to the 66th MASH during the Korean War, attracts the sexual attention of the unit's commander Dr. (MAJ) Jed Webbe. Webbe, who has a drinking problem, at first wants a "no strings" relationship. McGara is warned by the other nurses of Webbe's womanizing ways. Despite these initial handicaps, their love flourishes against a background of war, enemy attacks, death and injury. The relationship deepens and uplifts both characters.

The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills. Eventually, though, they come to respect her and romance blossoms between her and the head doctor.

Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter, a talented pianist... but she can't get in to see him. When she learns that Wainwright is auditioning young musicians for a children's concert tour, Cynthia dons braces and bobby sox and passes herself off as a child prodigy.

A sportswriter forms a ring triangle with a fight manager's daughter and her Mexican-American boxer.

A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.

Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.

Durante a Guerra Civil Americana, quatro irmãs e a mãe sobrevivem com dificuldades enquanto o pai delas serve com o exército confederado. A história narra como as irmãs cresceram, superaram tragédias, se apaixonaram e descobriram seu lugar no mundo.

Encomium para Larry Hart (1895-1943), visto pelos olhos fictícios de seu parceiro de letras de canções, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979). Começa com sua primeira reunião, e vai através de anos de vacas magras até serem descobertos, com seus sucessos na Broadway, Londres, e Hollywood. Vemos os frutos da parceria de Hart e Rodgers - elaboradamente encenando números de suas peças de teatro, personagens, visitas a clubes noturnos e performances de improviso nas festas. Vemos também a abordagem dispersa de Larry para a vida, seu amor frustrado com Peggy McNeil, a sua infelicidade, e o sucesso de Richard em cortejar Dorothy Feiner.

D'Artagnan, um jovem provinciano, chega à Paris com o intuito de se tornar um mosqueteiro. Ele encontrará muitos obstáculos, ação, amor, ódio, o rei e a rainha. E ainda Richelieu e sua impetuosidade, que deixará D'Artagnan envolvido em tramas políticas. Mas contra tudo e todos ele se junta a Athos, Porthos e Aramis. D'Artagnan terá, além do mais, que se desdobrar para manter seguro o seu amor pela encantadora Constance Bonacieux sem com isso indispor a apaixonada Milady De Winter, uma agente secreta do Cardeal.

McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg, who is Uncle Bump, tends to drink too much and has not started his next book. Martha won a contest to illustrate the book and the first thing that happens is that Greg gets her soused. To keep her there to illustrate, John gets a juvenile delinquent named Danny to play his son and show how much pressure he is under. The ploy works at first, but Greg's heart was broken by Tillie, and Martha may be the girl who makes him forget all about her.

At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.

After his plane is downed in the South Pacific, a Navy flier recounts his life to a co-pilot while awaiting rescue.

Penny Addams lives in a constant state of depression stemming from the trauma of her father's death when she was just a young girl. Her brother, Chase, and stepmother, Lee, work to help Penny process her grief through psychotherapy and revisiting their past, but only the revelation of long-buried family secrets -- including her mother's secret lover and the true nature of her father's death -- can bring Penny out of her intense despair.

Light bio-pic of American Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern, featuring renditions of the famous songs from his musical plays by contemporary stage artists, including a condensed production of his most famous: 'Showboat'.

Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.

While waiting in New York City to ship out to Europe, a sailor stops by a serviceman's canteen and meets a USO hostess. They immediately fall for each other and get married that night. However, when the sailor is notified that he has been reclassified as 4-F (unfit for service) by the Navy and then discharged, he and his new wife realize that, having to set up house before they expected to, they actually know very little about each other. Complications ensue.

In a fictional European country, a beautiful princess meets a handsome American reporter and falls in love with him. On a trip to New York, she hopes to find him again. While staying at one of the city's finest hotels she meets a kind-hearted bellhop who mistakes her for a maid. She invites him to be her escort, not realizing that he believes he has fallen in love with her. Every nice thing the princess does encourages him to believe that she feels the same way he does.

Six-year-old "Mike" goes to live with her pregnant older sister, Babs, who plays string bass in José Iturbi's orchestra. And the orchestra is rapidly turning completely female, what with the draft. As the orchestra travels around the country, Babs' fellow orchestra members intercept and hide her War Office telegram to protect the baby.

A sailor helps two sisters start up a service canteen. The sailor soon becomes taken with gorgeous sister Jean, unaware that her sibling Patsy is also in love with him.

A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some important issues.

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

Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from under a stalled roadster. They belong to the Dean's granddaughter, Ginger Gray, who is more interested in keeping the financially strapped college open than falling for Danny's romantic line. At least at first...

Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.

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.

Women are put in charge of the city government for a day, and the mayor must go to the train station to greet an opera singer.

June never leaves her apartment, which has a view of an advertising sign of a knight in shining armor. She is two weeks behind in her rent and believes that if she leaves the apartment, the landlord will never let her back in. The only way she gets food is when her friend, singer Earlayne Schools, brings it to her. One evening June sees Hal, a tap-dancing sign painter, painting over her knight. She explains her predicament, and he does his best to help her out.

Musical satire based on Anthony Hope's Ruritanian novel "The Prisoner of Zenda" in which a commoner takes the place of a lookalike king.

Sally Newton is in love with Lee Sullivan, a young tenor singer with Johnny Johnson's Orchestra, but her father prefers a stuffy young clerk as her suitor. She makes him taker her to the nightclub where Lee sings. Lee has arranged for Sally to elope with him, his song "Let's Take It on the Chin" being the signal for her. But the clerk has hired a tough gangster to keep Lee from singing.

Herman and Pat attend a dance at a co-ed school, with Pat dressing as a girl to become Herman's partner in an effort to avoid two homely girls forced upon them by the dean of women. Herman had been counting on his girl to save him but she hasn't arrived. When she does arrive, Herman is in trouble trying to explain his "date," Pat as a girl.

June Allyson is a cashier in a dance hall and her friend Imogene Coca wants to get a job there as a dance hostess. June advises her she needs to first make herself attractive to men,and gives her a book on the subject. But Imogene, by mistake, picks up the wrong book and reads one on the art of jiu-jitsu. Imogene's first customer is a bashful sailor who gets turned every which way but loose. Hank Henry also appears as a sailor. All four performers had better things ahead of them although,in the case of comedian Hank Henry, not by much.

An elevator operator and an engaged girl in love dodge the girl's fiancee and attempt to win over her father.