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- DirectorGeorge AbbottStarsLucille BallRichard CarlsonAnn MillerA young lady goes to college, and without her knowledge, her father sends four football players as her bodyguards. They eventually join the college team and turn it into one the best - and one of them falls in love with her.Chorus Boy
- DirectorB. Reeves EasonStarsFaye EmersonVan JohnsonGeorge MeekerA Death Row inmate vows to reveal damaging information about corrupt politicians on the day of his electric chair execution but he is found dead in his cell, prompting an investigation by a local reporter.Bert Bell
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsClark GableLana TurnerRobert SterlingTwo brother, rival correspondents, find themselves fighting their conservative editor over stories and each other of over the affections of a pretty blonde journalist.Lieutenant Wade Hall
- DirectorHarold S. BucquetStarsEdward ArnoldFay BainterRichard NeyA Washington official courts a society matron who is trying to ignore the effects of World War II.Michael Fitzpatrick
- DirectorWillis GoldbeckStarsLionel BarrymoreVan JohnsonSusan PetersDr. Gillespie's health is failing, and the hospital is urging him to get a new assistant that he doesn't want. So, he poses a stumper in class to discourage all the bright young students. Unfortunately, he gets three smart-alecky youngsters who all know the answer: Randall Adams (clean-cut American type), Lee Wong How (from Brooklyn), and Dennis LIndsey (Aussie). In typical Gillespie fashion, he sets about showing them there's more to doctoring than book-learning, and assigns each intern to an impossible case of diagnosis, saying that whoever gets it right will become his new assistant.Dr. Randall 'Red' Adams
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsMickey RooneyFrank MorganJames CraigTeenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.Marcus Macauley
- DirectorWillis GoldbeckStarsLionel BarrymoreVan JohnsonKeye LukeAfter Roy, a homicidal maniac was put away for murder, Gillespie tried to get him committed to an insane asylum instead. Now his ex-fiancée wants to marry a soldier, and she goes to Gillespie for advice about Roy. Meanwhile, Red's pursued by a pretty socialite, Lee encourages a double-amputee to live, Gillespie and the boys fight to save little Margaret from an epidemic in the children's ward, and Roy breaks out of prison...with a gun.Dr. Randall 'Red' Adams
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsFranchot ToneMarsha HuntGene KellyIn March 1942, on the island of Java, Indonesia, a Dutch major selects a pilot for a dangerous mission from the five U.S. Army airmen under his command. While waiting for word from the pilot, the others tell his life story to the major.Everett Arnold
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyAlbert LewinStarsGreer GarsonWalter PidgeonHenry TraversDespite himself, accomplished physicist and avowed bachelor Pierre Curie falls for brilliant student Marie, and together they embark on the discovery of radium.Reporter
- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsSpencer TracyIrene DunneVan JohnsonA dead World War II bomber pilot, Pete Sandidge becomes the guardian angel of another pilot, Ted Randall. He guides Ted through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her excessive devotion to Sandidge's memory.Ted Randall
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsVan JohnsonJune AllysonGloria DeHavenMusical in which two singing sisters set up a canteen to entertain soldiers, their enterprise funded by a mysterious wealthy admirerJohn Dyckman Brown III
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsIrene DunneAlan MarshalRoddy McDowallSusan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, American Susan never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry.Sam Bennett
- DirectorWillis GoldbeckStarsLionel BarrymoreVan JohnsonMarilyn MaxwellAt Blair Hospital, physician Dr. Leonard Gillespie must choose an assistant from among his two brightest interns, Dr. Randall 'Red' Adams and Dr. Lee Wong How.Dr. Randall 'Red' Ames
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsSpencer TracyVan JohnsonRobert WalkerIn the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.Ted Lawson
- DirectorWillis GoldbeckStarsVan JohnsonLionel BarrymoreGloria DeHavenRed's still being chased by his rich society girlfriend, and while he's dodging her proposals of marriage, he takes the time to cure a nightclub singer of her inability to eat ("neuro-psychological self-starvation"), and to operate on the emergency switchboard operator, who's alarmed everybody by suddenly collapsing.Dr. Randall 'Red' Adams
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsVan JohnsonEsther WilliamsFrances GiffordA swim teacher and a wealthy businessman are married after a brief courtship. A charming war hero falls in love with this newly-married woman, after her husband abandons her on their honeymoon for the sake of a business meeting.Maj. Thomas Milvaine
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsGinger RogersLana TurnerWalter PidgeonThe misadventures of a group of diverse guests at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Manhattan.Captain James Hollis
- DirectorEdward BuzzellBuster KeatonEdward SedgwickStarsVan JohnsonEsther WilliamsLucille BallTo prevent a libel case against the paper, a reporter tries to compromise the reputation of a tycoon's slandered daughter.William Stevens 'Bill' Chandler
- DirectorCharles MartinStarsVan JohnsonKeenan WynnPat KirkwoodThe men are coming home from war and Slinky decides his hero buddy Michael should first appear on a radio program. The good-natured and talented sergeant meets radio singer Susan where he finds love in-between songs.Sgt. Michael Hanlon
- DirectorRichard WhorfVincente MinnelliGeorge SidneyStarsRobert WalkerVan HeflinLucille BremerSongwriter and Broadway pioneer Jerome Kern is unable to find immediate success in the U.S. He sought recognition abroad. He journeyed to England where his dreams of success became real and where he met his future wife Eva Leale.Bandleader in Elite Club
- DirectorJack ConwayStarsVan JohnsonJune AllysonThomas MitchellVan Johnson is a Navy pilot in WWII who has been shot down in the Pacific on a bombing mission. He and a wounded comrade are the only survivors and are lost at sea. As they await rescue, Van Johnson recounts his life story and romance with girlfriend June Allyson. It's a wonderful wholesome movie that the whole family will enjoy. Written by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, the authors of "Mutiny on the Bounty".Alec Brooke
- DirectorRoy RowlandStarsVan JohnsonThomas MitchellJanet LeighIn post-Civil War Missouri, friends, relatives and neighbors find it difficult to live harmoniously together knowing that some of them fought on opposing sides during the war.Henry Carson
- DirectorNorman TaurogStarsVan JohnsonJune AllysonJackie 'Butch' JenkinsMcGrath publishes children's book, hires Martha as illustrator. Uncle Bump battles alcoholism, writer's block. He schemes to keep Martha, involving Danny. Romantic feelings arise between Uncle Bump and Martha amid personal challenges.Greg Rawlings
- DirectorFrank CapraStarsSpencer TracyKatharine HepburnVan JohnsonAn industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.'Spike' McManus
- DirectorSam WoodStarsClark GableWalter PidgeonVan JohnsonArmy generals struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing the German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.Tech. Sgt. Immanuel T. Evans