Gregory Ratoff

This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such memorable films as Anatomy of a Murder, Exodus, Laura, Forever Amber, Advise and Consent, In Harm's Way, The Moon Is Blue, The Man with the Golden Arm, and many other movies made from the '30s through the '70s. Interviews with actors Frank Sinatra, Vincent Price, James Stewart, Michael Caine, and others who worked with the flamboyant and sometimes control-obsessed director add information and insight to the story.

Her story is well-known - the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love goddess. But even though she scaled heights few could even dream of, she was one of the loneliest of stars. And yet, in spite of the breakdowns, the failed marriages, the sordid rumors surrounding her life -- and her death.

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

This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe's death, showcases the star in memorable scenes from her 20th Century Fox films, including wardrobe tests and clips from her last, uncompleted project, "Something's Got To Give". Hosted and narrated by Rock Hudson.

Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remote African town of Jebanda. The only stipulation is that his cousin Samuel, a timid bank clerk, accompany Vic and his Corsican bride, Marie, to Africa and protect the family fortune.

Фильм рассказывает о создании и первых годах Израиля, войне за независимость, называемой во всем мире Палестинской.

England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.

England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.

The wife of brilliant, but boisterous and ill-tempered conductor of the London Symphony puts up with his childishness, but the last straw is drawn when he begins an affair with a young pianist.

A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920's France and Spain.

Abdullah, absolute monarch of a wealthy Middle Eastern country, has everything a man could want. Everything, that is, until he falls for a beautiful model. She rejects his advances, however, along with his offers of riches and luxury, chosing instead an officer in the king's army as her lover. As all of this is going on, the ruler is oblivious to the growing discontent among his subjects, and the threat of revolt that is increasing with each passing day.

Abdullah, absolute monarch of a wealthy Middle Eastern country, has everything a man could want. Everything, that is, until he falls for a beautiful model. She rejects his advances, however, along with his offers of riches and luxury, chosing instead an officer in the king's army as her lover. As all of this is going on, the ruler is oblivious to the growing discontent among his subjects, and the threat of revolt that is increasing with each passing day.

Abdullah, absolute monarch of a wealthy Middle Eastern country, has everything a man could want. Everything, that is, until he falls for a beautiful model. She rejects his advances, however, along with his offers of riches and luxury, chosing instead an officer in the king's army as her lover. As all of this is going on, the ruler is oblivious to the growing discontent among his subjects, and the threat of revolt that is increasing with each passing day.

Abdullah, absolute monarch of a wealthy Middle Eastern country, has everything a man could want. Everything, that is, until he falls for a beautiful model. She rejects his advances, however, along with his offers of riches and luxury, chosing instead an officer in the king's army as her lover. As all of this is going on, the ruler is oblivious to the growing discontent among his subjects, and the threat of revolt that is increasing with each passing day.

В роскошной усадьбе на западном берегу Лонг-Айленда обитало семейство миллионеров Лэрраби. Отец, мать и два сына. Старший — Лайнус — умный, младший — Дэвид — красивый. В Дэвида была безответно влюблена юная дочь шофера семьи Сабрина. Чтобы «излечить» дочь от любовной лихорадки, отец отправляет её в Париж в школу поваров. Через несколько лет домой возвращается изысканная утонченная красавица. Её чувства не прошли, но теперь уже и Дэвид покорен ею. Семейные планы расширения бизнеса за счет удачной женитьбы непутёвого сына под угрозой… Старший брат готов мужественно принять удар на себя и поухаживать за навязчивой девчонкой…

Два состоятельных кутилы (в самом расцвете сил) увлекаются одной и той же молодой женщиной, однако она осаживает их, заявляя, что планирует расстаться с девственностью только после свадьбы. Оба мужчины пытаются найти способ добиться желаемого, не доводя дело до свадьбы.

A New York cab driver helps an Irish immigrant with a baby locate her missing husband.

Фильм создан по пяти новеллам великого американского писателя сатирика О. Генри. В картине экранизированы рассказы, написанные в период с 1902 по 1910 год: "Фараон и хорал", "Трубный Глас", "Последний Лист", "Вождь краснокожих", "Дары волхвов".

Стареющая звезда Бродвея Марго Ченнинг имела все: успех, друзей, молодого любовника. Скромная и трудолюбивая Ева становится ее помощницей, выполняющей все желания хозяйки. Быстрее всех понимает, что Евой движет желание стать «новой Марго Ченнинг», циничный театральный критик Аддисон Де Витт. Пресыщенный жизнью и презирающий окружающую его благопристойность, он решает помочь молодой карьеристке. Она становится его благодарной ученицей и упорно, не гнушаясь ничем, идет к вершинам славы, предавая окружающих ее людей…

A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.

A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.

A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.

A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.

A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV's court.

The lonely wife of a workaholic husband on the magical Isle of Capri meets a charming and attractive young man. An exciting affair must end when word gets back to the husband and he becomes ill. In hopes of avoiding a scene, she passes her beau along to her stepdaughter, Monica.

When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the lodgings. She approaches him directly, saying she'll go to the police if he doesn't meet her demands, but he brushes her off contemptuously. When he learns she's dead serious, he tries to buy her off with a thick wad of pound notes. But it's not money she's after; all she wants is two weeks at his country estate, living the life of a `lady.'

Two pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time.

Katharine Hilliard, mousy dean of a stuffy music school, meets and is insulted by swing band leader Barry Clayton on a train. To "show" him she takes a friend's advice, removes her glasses, and puts on a designer gown. Naturally, she becomes gorgeous. Soon, both Barry and crooner Jimmy Hale are after her, and she finds herself in the midst of triangles and misunderstandings.

Constance Bennett both produced and starred in the espionager Paris Underground. Bennett and Gracie Fields play, respectively, an American and an English citizen trapped in Paris when the Nazis invade. The women team up to help Allied aviators escape from the occupied city into Free French territory. The screenplay was based on the true wartime activities of Etta Shiber, who engineered the escape of nearly 300 Allied pilots. British fans of comedienne Gracie Fields were put off by the scenes in which she is tortured by the Gestapo, while Constance Bennett's following had been rapidly dwindling since the 1930s; as a result, the heartfelt but tiresome Paris Underground failed to make a dent at the box-office. It would be Constance Bennett's last starring film--and Gracie Fields' last film, period.

Bill wants to join the Army, but he's 4F so he asks a wizard to help him, but the wizard has slight problems with his history knowlege, so he sends Bill everywhere in history, but not to WWII.

Вскоре после смены веков, должна была родиться новая эра американской музыки ... а вместе с ней и молодой человек, которому предстояло написать национальные песни о любви. Звали его Эрнест Р. Болл. Эта история посвящена его памяти, и описывает те времена, когда он писал свои лучшие композиции ... самые сентиментальные баллады, которые когда-либо знал этот мир.

Дирижер Джон Мередит и его менеджер Хэнк Хиггинс, отправились в Россию вскоре после начала Второй мировой войны. Мередит полюбил красивую советскую пианистку Надю Степанову во время их гастролей по сорока городам Советского Союза. По пути они встречали счастливых, здоровых, улыбающихся, свободных советских людей, гордо живущих в коммунистическом рае. Эта советская утопия растоптана немецкими захватчиками.

Broadway star Fay Lawrence (West) is a temperamental diva who is reluctantly persuaded by a Broadway producer (Gaxton) to star in his latest production.

A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.

A press agent, a composer and a landlord of a theatrical boardinghouse revive vaudeville on Broadway.

Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy always has an eye for the ladies and he starts paying attention to beautiful chorus girl Pat Lambert. Pat's boyfriend Bill Smith isn't impressed with Tommy even though Tommy gets him a boxing part in the show. When Tommy finds out that Pat and Bill were secretly together the night before the show opens, he angrily plans to turn the boxing scene with Bill into a real bout.

The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the army, Tim to escape Vince's wrath and Vince to get his lunch-hooks on Tim. Both of our heroes run afoul of Army discipline and protocol in general, and tough top sergeant Valentine (Donald MacBride).

Фильм снят по мотивам одноименного романа Александра Дюма-отца. 19-ый век, Корсика. В семействе графа Франчи большой праздник: его жена вот-вот должна родить наследника. На это торжество съезжаются все родные и близкие графа. Но радость вельможи сменяется на отчаянье: он узнает о рождении сиамских близнецов. В это же самое время коварный барон Колонна, давно враждовавший с Франчи, решает одним махом покончить с ненавистным ему семейством и устраивает кровавую резню, уничтожив всех представителей древнего рода. В живых остаются лишь новорожденные младенцы. Доктору, другу семьи Франчи, удается разделить сиамских близнецов и он отправляет одного в Париж, а другого - в горы на острове. Проходят годы и первый становится уважаемым джентльменом, а второй лесным разбойником. Братья узнают друг о друге и решают объединить свои усилия и отомстить барону Колонна.

Актриса цирка русского происхождения Лина Варсавина становится балериной. Скорее из благодарности, чем по любви, она выходит замуж за своего преподавателя. После его смерти её мужем становится американец-интеллектуал, который заставляет её оставить балет. Но она покидает мужа, чтобы вернуться к своей любимой профессии...

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

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.

Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...

In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.

When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she applies for a job as secretary to a business rival.

Знаменитый виолончелист Брандт неожиданно влюбляется в юную пианистку Аниту, учительницу музыки его дочери. Услышав её игру, он предлагает ей совместное турне. Жена Хольгера готова на развод, не желая мешать счастью мужа. Но Анита не может решиться разлучить детей с отцом...

Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.

Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.

Woman hopes to be a great singer and is encouraged by her scheming teacher. After she flops her husband, encouraged by an amorous professional singer tries opera and also flops.

Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in her being detained at Ellis Island.

A group of stable hands is given a race horse when its owner retires from the business. They raise money to run the horse in the Hollywood Derby at Santa Anita race track. Many Hollywood personalities attend the event.

Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.

An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check him out but falls in love with him.

An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.

An American posing as a Russian prince woos a visiting Ohio heiress.

In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"

Действие разворачивается на улицах Парижа в 1914 году до наступления Первой Мировой войны. Канализационный работник Чико твердо убежден, что он стал атеистом потому, что его молитвы остались без ответа, когда он просил Бога исполнить два его сокровенных желания. Но герой оптимист по жизни и глубоко порядочный и сострадательный человек, хотя свое доброе сердце он скрывает за внешней грубостью. Он помогает Диане, когда ту избивает жестокосердная сестра — содержательница притона, за то, что девушка отказалась быть приветливой с клиентом.

Известный оперный певец жаждет отдыха и сбегает с этой целью в сельскую глушь, но и здесь подвергается преследованиям со стороны своего импресарио, который отправляет вслед за ним женщину, чтобы вернуть его. Они влюбляются.

The story of trench life during World War I through the lives of a French regiment. As men are killed and replaced jaunty Lt. Denet becomes more and more somber. His rival for the affection of nurse Monique is Capt. La Roche. Written by Ed Stephan

The "Caliban-Ariel" romance of fiftysomething John Barrymore and teenager Elaine Barrie is spoofed in this delightful 20th Century Fox musical. Adolphe Menjou plays the Barrymore counterpart, a loose-living movie star with a penchant for wine, women, and more wine. Alice Faye plays a nightclub singer hungry for publicity. Her agent (Gregory Ratoff) arranges a "romance" between Faye and Menjou. Eventually Faye winds up with Michael Whalen, allowing Menjou to continue his blissful, bibulous bachelorhood. Sing, Baby, Sing represented the feature-film debut of the Ritz Brothers, who are in top form in their specialty numbers--and who are awarded a final curtain call after the "The End" title, just so the audience won't forget them (The same device was used to introduce British actor George Sanders in Fox's Lancer Spy [37]).

Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the second is born deaf-mute but gains hearing during WWI bombing.

Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle is in love with her. Doyle sends Victor on dangerous assignments to be rid of him. He falls in love with Lady Venetia Cunningham, a visitor to the garrison

Donovan unknowingly becomes tangled up with jewel thieves when Evelyn Howard gives him a cigarette lighter containing some hot rocks.

Warner Baxter plays the ambitious producer of a burlesque show who rises to the big time on Broadway. Alice Faye is the loyal burleycue singer who helps make Baxter a success. His head turned by sudden fame, Baxter falls under the spell of a society woman (Mona Barrie) who has theatrical aspirations of her own. She marries Baxter, then convinces him to produce a string of "artistic" plays rather than his extravagant musical revues. The plays are flops, and the woman haughtily divorces Baxter. Faithful Alice Faye, who'd gone to London when her ex-beau was married, returns to the penniless Baxter. She and her burlesque buddies team up to pull Baxter out of his rut and put him on top again.

After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed.

A lion-tamer's partly innate and partly acquired attitude to other living beings - that they shall submit without question to his will - is applied with unseeing kindness to an orphan girl whom the lion tamer adopts.

A lion-tamer's partly innate and partly acquired attitude to other living beings - that they shall submit without question to his will - is applied with unseeing kindness to an orphan girl whom the lion tamer adopts.

Britisher Sir Charles Farrington and a son, Rex Farrington, arrive in a Russian Soviet territory searching for another Farrington son, Michael,who has been thrown into prison. Valarie Perrovna is a singer who is in love with the imprisoned son and she provides the searchers with the information as to where the missing son is being held. They all go there and help Michael escape. But is their escape vehicle---a flat wagon pulled by three horses--- fast enough and sturdy enough through the snow to beat the Commmisar and his troops to the Rumanian border

British comedy. It was released in the United States the following year under the alternative title Trouble Ahead.

An actor is jealous of his wife's stardom.

Reporter Miss Lee is looking for a story and approaches George White as he's assembling the latest edition of his famous revue. As it turns out, she has lots of backstage gossip to choose from

A carnival girl pretends to be Swedish in order to win a movie role.

In this comedy, a Tennessee art school student wins a scholarship to paint in Paris. He is thrilled until he arrives and discovers that his style is hopelessly passe and is considered trashy. The enterprising artist immediately changes style and begins painting highly-abstract moderns.

Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon proprieter, joins them.

Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it will also get Joan to fall in love with him. After scoring a hit, Joan accepts Frank's marriage proposal, more out of gratitude than love. The situation gets even stickier when she falls for a handsome band leader during a trip to Florida. Can she tell Frank she's in love with someone else?

Бесстрашная Тира работает танцовщицей и укротительницей львов на ярмарке. Тире нужны деньги, и она соглашается на новый рискованный номер: она положит голову в львиную пасть. С этим номером цирк отправляется в Нью-Йорк, где Тира занимается любимым делом: флиртует с богачами и получает от них дорогие подарки. Среди богатых поклонников она ищет любовь своей жизни, о которой узнала от гадалки. Она знает лишь то, что он богат и черноволос. Когда же Тира, наконец, встречает его, то становится жертвой интриги...

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

Radio singer Glory Eden is publicized as the ideal of American womanhood in order to sell the sponsor's product Ippsie-Wippsie Washcloths. In reality, Glory would like to at least sample booze, jazz, gambling, and men. When the strain of representing "purity" brings her to rebellion, the sponsor and his nutty henchmen pick her a public-relations "sweetheart" from fan mail, who turns out to be a hayseed.

Daniel Pardway, starting with almost nothing after the great Chicago fire, builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his three sons and daughter, but has to deal with their lack of interest or aptitude.

When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring that has been plaguing the police. The sister of another innocent victim joins him as they infiltrate the syndicate. Any wrong move could lead to instant death.

A burglar is recruited by the French Surete to help find his kidnapped girlfriend, who has been kidnapped by a deranged White Russian to impersonate the missing Princess Anastasia Romanoff while under his hypnotic spell.

Story of a Hollywood studio during the transition from silents to talkies.

Skyscraper Souls is a Pre-Code 1932 drama film starring Warren William and Maureen O'Sullivan. The film was directed by Edgar Selwyn and is based upon the novel Skycraper by Faith Baldwin. The film depicts the aspirations and lives of several people in the Seacoast National Bank Building. Among them is David Dwight, the womanizing bank owner who keeps his estranged wife happy by paying her bills. His secretary Sarah wants him to get a divorce so they can marry.

Официантка престижного ресторана, который часто посещают работники кино, Мэри Эванс мечтает стать актрисой. Однажды вечером, обслуживая подвыпившего знаменитого режиссера Макса Кэрри, она его очаровывает и он приглашает ее на премьеру своего фильма в китайский кинотеатр Граумон. Купив за 50 долларов «драндулет», он с эпатажем подъезжает к кинотеатру и отдает его в качестве «чаевых» парковщику стоянки, а Мэри представляет зрителям графиней. Прокутив всю ночь, он ничего не помнит на следующее утро. Доставившая его домой Мэри напоминает ему, что он обещал ей пробные съемки. Первое экранное испытание показывает, что девушка имеет гораздо больше амбиций, чем таланта и ей готовы отказать, но Мэри кроме амбиций еще и упорна…

A young doctor escapes the slums of New York City to make his fortune as a Park Avenue doctor. When a fatal mistake results in tragedy his resolve to continue working is severely tested. Based on a novel by Fannie Hurst.

A salesman tries to sell life insurance, hair tonic, and girth reducing exercise equipment and anything else to a man who doesn't want any of it.