Phyllis Thaxter
Nascimento : 1919-11-20, Portland, Maine, USA
Morte : 2012-08-14
História
Phyllis Thaxter was an American stage, screen, and television actress.
Rebecca Nurse
Nineteen people were hanged and one man pressed to death, while hundreds went to jail during the "witch hysteria" of 1692. THREE SOVEREIGNS FOR SARAH offers an accurate portrayal of the Salem witch trials, with real characters and original transcripts woven into the dialogue. The film is a powerful, moving story about three loving sisters accused of witchcraft.
Ma Kent
Jor-El, um renomado cientista, prevê a destruição do seu planeta e alerta o governo, que não lhe dá credito. Assim, decide salvar seu filho, mandando-o ao planeta Terra, onde terá superpoderes. Na Terra, ele usa o nome de Clark Kent e, já adulto, trabalha como repórter em um jornal, não demonstra ter superpoderes. Mas quando uma situação inesperada põe em risco a vida de Lois Lane, uma colega de trabalho, ele é obrigado a se revelar para o público, ficando conhecido popularmente como Superman. Descontente com o surgimento de um super-herói na cidade, Lex Luthor, um gênio do mal, o obriga a se desdobrar para evitar a morte de milhões de pessoas.
Norma Chambers
The daughter of a wealthy family is kidnapped and imprisoned underground in a custom-built, ventilated coffin while her family and the police search for her. But the battery that powers the ventilation is running out of juice and the ransom drop has been botched. This movie was originally shown as an ABC Movie of the Week on September 12, 1972. The story is based on the 1968 kidnapping of Barbara Mackle by Gary Krist.
Lois Harmon
A man who tries to stop a mugging finds himself accused of murdering the criminal after the victim and witnesses fail to corroborate his story. A young reporter believes the man and tries to find out why the parties involved are trying to frame him.
Mrs. Avis Gilbert
Enquanto tenta seduzir uma mulher casada (Paula Prentiss), o pianista Henry Orient (Peter Sellers) é interrompido por duas colegiais precoces, Valerie (Tippy Walker) e Marian (Merrie Spaeth). A princípio, ele não se importa, mas como as coincidências se repetem Henry acha que as garotas são espiãs do marido da amante. Valerie acaba se apaixonando pelo pianista.
Lisa Collins
A preacher (George Nader) fears for his family (Phyllis Thaxter, Tim Hovey) after killing a teenage burglar whose father seeks revenge.
Connie Ennis
Connie is a widow and mother whose work involves checking up on the competition for her department store employer. When Steve, a charming salesman at a competing store, recognizes her true motives but refuses to expose her, he ends up getting fired as a result. Feeling guilty, Connie agrees to buy lunch for Steve, striking up a friendship that complicates her relationship with Carl, a lawyer who wants to marry her.
Helene Jensen
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
Gladys Mitchell
A family living 50 miles away try to flee from the fallout of an atomic bomb that fell on New York City.
Maria
After assisting the French Underground during WWII, an American Officer is later accused of murder and subversive activities by former colleagues. Based on the actual exploits of Lieutenant Colonel Peter Ortiz.
Erin Kearney
Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for the Union war effort. Falling in with the gang of jayhawkers and Confederate soldiers who have been conducting the raids, he gradually gains their trust and is put in a position where he can discover who has been giving them secret information revealing the routes of the horse shipments.
Helen Palmer
Shapely burlesque dancer Hot Garters Gertie aka Angela Gardner meets her future drama professor. Her new landlady proves to be the professor's wife. Angela helps breath life into the annual school stage show...but someone has discovered her secret past.
Paula Copeland
Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back and devotes himself to other recovering alcoholics.
Margaret Miller
The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.
Flora Talbot
Ex-gunfighter Ned Britt returns to Fort Worth after the civil war to help run a newspaper which is against ambitious men and their schemes for control.
Lucy Morgan
Um pescador com problemas financeiros aluga seu barco para transportar criminosos.
Patrice Harkness
A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.
Ann
A former prisoner of war, Frank Enley is hailed as a hero in his California town. However, Frank has a shameful secret that comes back to haunt him when fellow survivor Joe Parkson emerges, intent on making Frank pay for his past deeds.
Carol Lufton
Um estranho chega na cidade para se juntar à um velho amigo, assumindo que é um pistoleiro contratado. Ao perceber a natureza ilícita do negócio ante esse seu amigo e os colonos, que estão sendo usados, os dois procurarão resolver a situação o tanto quanto possível.
Sherida Binyon
A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged.
Helen Mills
Flavia's been told that her Aunt Susan's fiancé, Steve, has been on a trip around the world, but in truth he's finished his prison term. Steve wonders how he can make some money and is approached by his old associates. When Flavia discovers the truth about Steve, she loses all faith in her family and in God, and it will take a miracle to restore Flavia's belief and Steve out of trouble.
Peggy Randall
A World War II pilot (Gene Kelly) comes home to a bride (Marie McDonald) who, spoiled by her father (Charles Winninger), now wants a divorce.
Sara Beth Brewton
A St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.
Cynthia Drew
Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for a jewel thief; a soldier learns that without an operation he'll die and so looks for one last romance with a beautiful but ambitious stenographer; a cub reporter tries to get the goods on a shady man's dealing with a foreign potentate.
Joan Alris Ellis
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.
Ellen Lawson
A verdadeira e incrivelmente detalhada história de "O Raid de Doolittle", baseado no relato pessoal de Ted Lawson, um dos participantes do Raid. Atordoados pelo ataque a Pearl Harbor e uma série de outras derrotas, a América precisava de uma vitória. Para isso o coronel Jimmy Doolittle, um campeão de corrida aérea e piloto de acrobacias, elabora um plano para um ataque ousado ao coração do próprio Japão. Para fazer isso, ele deve treinar pilotos de bombardeiro do exército para fazer algo que ninguém jamais sonhou ser possível, o lançamento de 16 bombardeiros B-25, totalmente carregados de combustível e bombas, a partir de um porta-aviões! Notável em sua exatidão, este filme ainda usa imagens filmadas do raid real.
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.