The Mad Miss Manton

Leigh Jason Director

Frances Mercer as Helen Frayne

Pierre Watkin as Mr. Fenton

Irving Bacon as Mr. Spengler - the Process Server

George Chandler as Newspaper Man

When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she and her group of friends prove them wrong.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

1938

English

♡ 6

71%

Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who secretly set it up for her to broadcast.

Little Miss Broadway

1938

English

♡ 6

72%

An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.

Alexander's Ragtime Band

1938

English

6.8

♡ 6

83%

Henry King Director

Marjorie Woodworth as Baton Specialty

Don Ameche as Charlie Dwyer

Harold Goodwin as Military Policeman at Army Show

Douglas Fowley as Snapper

Classical violinist Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with the band's singer, Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend and, when Roger returns home after the war, an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.

Reefer Madness

1938

English

3.7

♡ 6

39%

Louis J. Gasnier Director

Carleton Young as Jack

Lester Dorr as Joe - Bartender

Edward Earle as Mr. Wayne - Federal Bureau Investigator

Richard Alexander as Pete Daley - Dope Pusher

High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.

Sidewalks of London

1938

English

6.9

♡ 3

64%

london theater district

pickpocket

street performers

Tim Whelan Director

Charles Laughton as Charles Staggers

Rex Harrison as Harley Prentiss

Vivien Leigh as Liberty aka Libby

Edward Lexy as Mr. Such

On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby, also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley, the theater patron who never knew Libby took his gold cigarette case, is impressed by Libby's dancing and invites her to bring Charles and the other buskers in his group to an after-the-play party. Libby comes alone. A theatrical career is launched.

Carefree

1938

English

6.9

♡ 12

57%

Mark Sandrich Director

Jack Carson as Connors

George Ford as Country Club Guest

Walter Kingsford as Dr. Powers

George DeNormand as Minor Role

Dr. Tony Flagg's friend Steven has problems in the relationship with his fiancée Amanda, so he persuades her to visit Tony. After some minor misunderstandings, she falls in love with him. When he tries to use hypnosis to strengthen her feelings for Steven, things get complicated.

Topper Takes a Trip

1938

English

6.4

♡ 9

63%

Action

based on novel or book

Norman Z. McLeod Director

Armand Kaliz as Hotel Clerk

Bobby Barber as Hotel Staffer Moving Bed

Jack Hill as Policeman in Bank

Alan Mowbray as Wilkins

Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to a strange behavior of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs. Parkhurst takes Mrs. Topper on a trip to France where she tries to arrange the final reasons for the divorce. With help of a gold-digging French baron, Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not too easy.

There's Always a Woman

1938

English

6.7

♡ 7

38%

Alexander Hall Director

Walter Kingsford as Grigson

Pierre Watkin as Mr. Ketterling

Lester Matthews as Walter Fraser

Melvyn Douglas as William 'Bill' Reardon

An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.

Holiday

1938

English

7.7

♡ 22

George Cukor Director

Ann Doran as Kitchen Maid

Katharine Hepburn as Linda Seton

Lew Ayres as Ned Seton

Henry Daniell as Seton Cram

Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!

The Goldwyn Follies

1938

English

5.3

♡ 4

33%

George Marshall Director

Nydia Westman as Ada

Alfred Newman as Musical Director

Adolphe Menjou as Oliver Merlin

Joseph Crehan as Theatre Manager

Movie producer chooses a simple girl to be "Miss Humanity" and to critically evalute his movies from the point of view of the ordinary person.

Anma to onna

1938

Japanese

7.1

♡ 4

Action

Drama

Hiroshi Shimizu Director

Mitsuko Miura as Hiking girl

Toshiaki Konoe as Hiking student

Mieko Takamine as Michiho Misawa

Shin Tokudaiji as Tokuichi Misawa

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing miniature studies of love and family at a remote resort in the mountains. With delicate and surprising humor, Hiroshi Shimizu paints a timeless portrait of loneliness and the human need to connect.

Quadrille

1938

French

6.7

♡ 3

29%

Sacha Guitry Director

Julien Rivière as Le maître d'hôtel

Georges Lemaire as Le régisseur

Marie-Claire Pissaro as Une femme de chambre

Clary Monthal as Une habilleuse

The battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend Claudine, a realistic and enterprising reporter, that he's thinking of proposing. Into the mix steps Carl Erickson, a charming Hollywood matinée idol in Paris briefly. He meets Paulette, sees her act (his box seat compliments of Philippe), and sets out to seduce her. The next two days bring talk, tears, separation, despair, surprises, and, perhaps, reconciliation as characters speak "exactly half the truth." It's a quadrille of changing partners.

Sirocco

1938

French

6.8

♡ 2

Action

Drama

Pierre Chenal Director

Florence Marly as Diana

Edmond Beauchamp as Le policier

Marcel Dalio as Matteo Gordina - le Maltais

Louis Jouvet as Rossignol

Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the mistress and then wife of a wealthy archaeologist, and bears him Matteo's child, whom he believes to be his own. Complications arise years later when Matteo finds Safia, and a ring of blackmailers uncover her past and exposes her to her husband.

Karriär

1938

Swedish

5.6

♡ 1

Action

Drama

Schamyl Bauman Director

Arne Lindblad as Andersson, Janitor

Ruth Stevens as Karin Lund

Bellan Roos as Landlady

Signe Hasso as Monika Hall

One day, a theater company to Iron Creek. In the city's steel mills meet the young actress Monika young Erik. The love between them is from the very clear but complicated by the fact both have careers.

A Slight Case of Murder

1938

English

7.0

♡ 6

67%

Lloyd Bacon Director

Harrison Greene as Bartender

Margaret Hamilton as Mrs. Cagle

Harry Myers as Partygoer

Edward G. Robinson as Remy Marco

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

Spawn of the North

1938

English

6.7

♡ 4

Henry Hathaway Director

Irving Bacon as Cannery Official

Monte Blue as Cannery Official

Henry Fonda as Jim Kimmerlee

George Raft as Tyler Dawson

Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.

I Met My Love Again

1938

English

5.5

♡ 2

teacher student relationship

George Cukor Director

Tim Holt as Budge Williams

Lester Dorr as Hotel Desk Clerk

Henry Fonda as Ives Towner

Joan Bennett as Julie Weir

In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and grows infatuated with handsome writer Michael Shaw, and they marry and move to Paris. Years later, after Michael's accidental death, Julie and her daughter move back to Vermont to live with her aunt and Julie finds Ives, now a professor, disinterested in resuming their romantic relationship.

Donald's Golf Game

1938

English

6.6

♡ 17

57%

Jack King Director

Clarence Nash as Donald Duck / Huey / Dewey / Louie

Donald Duck tries to exhibit his golfing ability to his nephews only to have them tease him with sneezes, noises and "trick" clubs. Finally, they put a grasshopper in a ball and it "jumps" all over.

Ferdinand the Bull

1938

English

7.1

♡ 10

64%

Dick Rickard Director

Milt Kahl as Ferdinand

Walt Disney as Ferdinand's Mother

Alex Taromartin as Matador

Don Wilson as Narrator

This Oscar-winning short tells of a bull who preferred to sit under trees and smell flowers to clashing horns with his fellow animals. As luck would have it, an untimely bee reveals Ferdinand's ferocious side via pained howls and wild stomping. This lands him in the bull-fighting arena amidst characters based on Walt's animators with a matador reportedly modeled after Walt himself.

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The Mad Miss Manton

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Little Miss Broadway

Alexander's Ragtime Band

Reefer Madness

Sidewalks of London

Carefree

Topper Takes a Trip

There's Always a Woman

Holiday

The Goldwyn Follies

Anma to onna

Quadrille

Sirocco

Karriär

A Slight Case of Murder

Spawn of the North

I Met My Love Again

Donald's Golf Game

Ferdinand the Bull