Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' bandleader to raise money before he can skip town.

Can't Help Singing

1944

English

6.2

♡ 2

44%

Frank Ryan Director

Irving Bacon as Bath House Barber

Michael Ansara as California Caballero

Thomas Gomez as Jake Carstairs

Barbara Pepper as Saloon Girl

With the California Gold Rush beginning, Senator Frost's singing daughter Caroline loves a young army officer; the Senator can't stand him, and has him sent to California. Headstrong Caroline follows him by train, riverboat, and covered wagon, gaining companions en route: a vagrant Russian prince and gambler Johnny Lawlor, who just might take her mind off the army.

The Return of Frank James

1940

English

6.6

♡ 12

71%

Fritz Lang Director

Irving Bacon as Bystander

Barbara Pepper as Nellie Blane

Lloyd Corrigan as Randolph Stone

George Chandler as Roy

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

Rock-a-Bye Baby

1958

English

6.6

♡ 16

63%

Frank Tashlin Director

Marilyn Maxwell as Carla Naples

Jack Benny as Carlos, the matador

Barbara Pepper as Mrs. Oberholt

Mary Treen as Nurse

An average television repairman must care for the newborn triplets of his former hometown sweetheart—now a famous movie star—so her career will not suffer.

Foreign Correspondent

1940

English

7.4

♡ 33

95%

parent child relationship

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Richard Hammond as Bit Part

Barbara Pepper as Dorine

Jane Novak as Miss Benson

Ian Wolfe as Stiles

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.

Auntie Mame

1958

English

7.9

♡ 11

88%

93%

Action

based on novel or book

based on play or musical

Morton DaCosta Director

Forrest Tucker as Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside

Lee Patrick as Doris Upson

Barbara Pepper as Mrs. Krantz

Ron Nyman as Party Guest

Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies. Conflict ensues when the executor of the father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle and tries to force her to send Patrick to prep school.

Brewster's Millions

1945

English

6.6

♡ 5

48%

Comedy

inheritance

inheritance challenge

millionaire

remake

Romance

Allan Dwan Director

Barbara Pepper as Cab Driver

Kenneth Gibson as Party Guest

Helen Walker as Peggy Gray

William Forrest as Yacht Captain

Monty Brewster is a pennyless, former U.S. Army soldier back from World War II Europe who learns that he has inherited $8 million from a distant relative. But there's a catch: he must spend $1 million of that money in less than two months before his 30th birthday in order to inherit the rest.

The Women

1939

English

7.7

♡ 37

94%

parent child relationship

reno, nevada

George Cukor Director

Paulette Goddard as Miriam Aarons

Joan Fontaine as Mrs. John Day - Peggy

Betty Blythe as Mrs. South

Barbara Pepper as Tough Girl

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

Kiss Me, Stupid

1964

English

6.9

♡ 19

75%

Billy Wilder Director

Barbara Pepper as Big Bertha

Ray Walston as Orville

James J. Casino as Stagehand

Henry Beckman as Truck Driver

While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night. The mechanic's songwriting partner, Orville, offers Dino his home for overnight lodging and enlists a local waitress/call girl to pose as his wife in order to placate Dino's urges.

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Of Mice and Men

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Can't Help Singing

The Return of Frank James

Rock-a-Bye Baby

Foreign Correspondent

Auntie Mame

Brewster's Millions

The Women

Kiss Me, Stupid