Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor their beloved Miss Bishop.

Lady on a Train

1945

English

6.7

♡ 4

71%

Charles David Director

Dan Duryea as Arnold Waring

Ethelreda Leopold as Circus Club Customer

George Chandler as Circus Club Customer

Addison Richards as Police Captain

While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists a popular mystery writer to help her solve the crime on her own, but her sleuthing attracts the attentions of suitors and killers.

Funny Girl

1968

English

7.4

♡ 27

95%

William Wyler Director

Johnny Silver as Arnstein's Jockey

Ethelreda Leopold as Audience Member

John Roy as Audience Member

John Dennis as Newsman

The life of famed 1930s comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of New York, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, as well as her marriage to the rakish gambler Nick Arnstein.

Saboteur

1942

English

7.1

♡ 22

81%

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Margaret Hayes as Henry's Wife in Movie

William A. Boardway as Navy Officer at Ship Launching

Ethelreda Leopold as Party Guest

Ian Wolfe as Robert

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

Footlight Parade

1933

English

7.5

♡ 7

100%

Lloyd Bacon Director

Lillian Lawrence as Aunt Matilda in 'Honeymoon Hotel'

Ethelreda Leopold as Chorus Girl

George Chandler as Druggist

Billy Barty as Mouse / Little Boy

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.

Point Blank

1967

English

7.3

♡ 28

93%

83%

Action

alcatraz prison

based on novel or book

John Boorman Director

Michael Bell as 2nd Penthouse Lobby Guard

Ethelreda Leopold as Conventioneer

Chuck Hicks as Guard

Keenan Wynn as Yost

After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.

Damaged Goods

1937

English

5.8

♡ 3

96%

Action

Drama

sexually transmitted disease

syphilis

syphillis

venereal diseases

Phil Goldstone Director

Ethelreda Leopold as Girl at Stag Party

David Newell as Guest at stag party

Arletta Duncan as Henrietta Allen

Dorothy Short as Table Dancer

A groom-to-be contracts syphilis and wrestles with the consequences of his diagnosis.

A Chump at Oxford

1940

English

7.2

♡ 10

83%

Alfred J. Goulding Director

Ethelreda Leopold as Bank Manager's Secretary

Forrester Harvey as Meredith

Anita Garvin as Mrs. Vandevere

Charlie Hall as Student Hector

The boys get jobs as a butler and maid-- Stan in drag-- for a dinner party. When that ends in disaster, they resort to sweeping streets and accidentally capture a bank robber. The grateful bank president sends them to Oxford, at their request, and higher-education hijinks ensue.

The Spider Woman

1943

English

7.0

♡ 10

Roy William Neill Director

Donald Stuart as Artie - Shooting Gallery Attendant

Ethelreda Leopold as Casino Patron

Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson

Gene Roth as Henchman Taylor

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on "The Sign of Four" and the short stories "The Dying Detective", "The Final Problem", "The Speckled Band" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".

The Art of Love

1965

English

6.1

♡ 3

Norman Jewison Director

Angie Dickinson as Laurie Gibson

Jean Del Val as Magistrate

Ethelreda Leopold as Restaurant Patron

Ron Nyman as Waiter

Struggling artist fakes his own death so his works will increase in value.

My Man Godfrey

1936

English

7.9

♡ 22

97%

Gregory La Cava Director

Ethelreda Leopold as Socialite

David S. Horsley as Socialite

Katherine Perry as Socialite

Alan Mowbray as Tommy Gray

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.

Hollywood Hotel

1937

English

6.4

♡ 1

40%

Busby Berkeley Director

Frances Langford as Alice

Lester Dorr as Casting Assistant

Ethelreda Leopold as Chorus Girl

Amzie Strickland as Guest at Orchid Room

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.

Batman

1966

English

7.5

♡ 4

80%

Richard C. Sarafian Director

William O'Connell as Mr. Perkins 1 episode, 1966

Ethelreda Leopold as Observer Outside Club

Karen Ericson as Queen Bess 1 episode, 1967

Virginia Wood as Sylvia

Wealthy entrepreneur Bruce Wayne (Adam West) and his ward Dick Grayson (Burt Ward) lead a double life: they are actually the crime-fighting team of Batman and Robin. Two secret Batpoles in Wayne Manor lead down to the Batcave, where Police Commissioner Gordon (Neil Hamilton) summons the Dynamic Duo on the Batphone with the latest emergency threatening Gotham City. Racing to the scene of the crime in the jet-powered Batmobile, Batman and Robin must (with the help of their trusty utility belts) thwart the schemes of a rogues gallery of flamboyant arch-villains, including the Joker (Cesar Romero), the Penguin (Burgess Meredith), the Riddler (both Frank Gorshin and John Astin) and the Catwoman (Julie Newmar, Lee Meriwether and Eartha Kitt).—Murray Chapman

All About Eve

1950

English

8.2

♡ 64

99%

Joseph L. Mankiewicz Director

Walter Hampden as Aged Actor

Thelma Ritter as Birdie Coonan

Helen Mowery as Reporter

Ethelreda Leopold as Sarah Siddons Awards Guest

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing. Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critic sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit.

The Great Dictator

1940

English

♡ 152

92%

Charles Chaplin Director

Carter DeHaven as Bacterian Ambassador

Ethelreda Leopold as Blonde Secretary

Paulette Goddard as Hannah

Charles Chaplin as Hynkel - Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

Marked Woman

1937

English

7.1

♡ 11

100%

manhattan, new york city

new york city

Thriller

Lloyd Bacon Director

Frank Faylen as 2nd Cabbie

Ben Welden as Charlie

Ethelreda Leopold as Dancing Club Patron

Raymond Hatton as Lawyer

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

A Night in Casablanca

1946

English

6.9

♡ 14

63%

Archie Mayo Director

Kenneth Gibson as Hotel Guest

Arthur Tovey as Restaurant Patron

Ethelreda Leopold as Restaurant Patron

Harpo Marx as Rusty

The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.

Dragnet

1987

English

6.0

♡ 47

49%

Tom Mankiewicz Director

Shannon Tweed as Baitmate

Ethelreda Leopold as Banquet Guest

Tom Hanks as Det. Pep Streebek

Ruben Garfias as Tough #2

LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday -- the equally straight-laced nephew of the famous police sergeant of the same name -- is paired up with a young, freewheeling detective named Pep Streebeck. After investigating some strange robberies at the local zoo and the theft of a stockpile of pornographic magazines, they uncover cult activity in the heart of the city and are hot on the case to figure out who's behind it all.

Hillbillys in a Haunted House

1967

English

2.8

♡ 2

21%

Jean Yarbrough Director

Virginia Ann Lee as Agent Ming Toy

Ethelreda Leopold as Audience Member

Arthur Tovey as Audience Member

John Carradine as Dr. Himmil

Country singers on their way to Nashville have car trouble, forcing them to stop at an old haunted mansion. Soon they realize that the house is not only haunted, but is also the headquarters of a ring of international spies after a top secret formula for rocket fuel.