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Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his...
His Girl Friday
In this 25-minute video essay, film scholar David Bordwell, co-author of "Film Art: An Introduction", conducts an analysis of Howard Hawks's "His...
Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson
In this documentary short, film historian David Thomson and critic Molly Haskell analyze the themes of Howard Hawks's 1940 film "His Girl Friday."
On Assignment: 'His Girl Friday'
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
The Women
A charming but somewhat larcenous widow attempts to snare a rich bachelor through a lonely hearts club, but her scheme boomerangs into a deadly...
The Crooked Hearts
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen...
My Sister Eileen
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
The Velvet Touch
A woman brings her son and husband to a tropical vacation spot for a little rest and relaxation. The only problem is that the husband has been dead...
Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad
A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war.
The Guilt of Janet Ames
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...
Auntie Mame
Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens...
The Trouble with Angels
A public relations man falls for his most difficult client's granddaughter.
Four's a Crowd
Rose Hovick lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention...
Gypsy
Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a...
Picnic
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the...
Sister Kenny
A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.
Reckless
Mother Superior of St. Francis Academy is challenged by a modern young nun when they take the girls on a bus trip across the country.
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only...
China Seas
Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile...
Mourning Becomes Electra
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
Rendezvous
A criminal lawyer's wife is blackmailed when she is falsely accused of infidelity.
Evelyn Prentice
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at...
The Citadel
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...
Under Two Flags
Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl's fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him...
Night Must Fall
A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind...
The Feminine Touch
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.
Design for Scandal
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.
They Met in Bombay
When Philo Vance receives a note that harm will befall Lynn at the casino that night, he takes the threat seriously while the DA dismisses it. At the...
The Casino Murder Case
Ad man Stephen Dexter asks his secretary Kendall to marry him as a loophole in order to protect his finances during an important business deal. Once...
Hired Wife
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they...
Take a Letter, Darling
Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her practice in Chicago, she spends time back East with...
She Wouldn't Say Yes
A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many...
Never Wave at a WAC
Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult...
Craig's Wife
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
West Point of the Air
A socialite only realises that her friend is in love with her when she falls for the wrong man.
Forsaking All Others
Ice-cold college dean Susan Middlecott feels there's no room in her life for romance. Enter Prof. Alec Stevenson, British lecturer on astronomy,...
A Woman of Distinction
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.
No Time for Comedy
In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. Despite numerous setbacks, she always picks herself back up and...
Roughly Speaking
A fictionalized biopic about aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. A female pilot breaks the Los Angeles to New York record and attracts the interest of...
Flight for Freedom
A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the...
A Majority of One
When her compulsive-gambler father dies, leaving her with an inheritance that amounts to zip, single gal Kim Halliday jumps at a caller's claim that...
The Girl Rush
A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his...
Live, Love and Learn
Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and...
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
A decadent prince unhappy over an impending arranged marriage, looking for a good time in London discovers the existence of a secret society called...
Trouble for Two
A documentary covering the great flood of 1955 that swept through the state of Connecticut, including testimonies and eyewitness accounts from...
The Flood of ‘55
The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.
Fast and Loose
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with...
The Night Is Young
A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman.
Man-Proof
An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have her declared legally insane.
Rosie!
An author and a literary agent become involved after selling film rights to his racy book.
What a Woman
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.
This Thing Called Love
Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her...
Tell It to the Judge
The arrival of a young tutor triggers emotional crises for a wealthy family.
Five Finger Exercise
A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in...
Screen Snapshots (Series 25, No. 1): 25th Anniversary
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have...
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
A poor boy rises to power in politics.
It Had to Happen
Ruth Sherwood and her sister, Eileen, have moved to 1935 Greenwich Village. They're surrounded by colorful Village characters (including an...
Wonderful Town
The President Vanishes, released in the United Kingdom as Strange Conspiracy, is a 1934 American political drama film directed by William A. Wellman...
The President Vanishes
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1941.
Breakdowns of 1941
Overview of director King Vidor's filmography.
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1947.
Blow-Ups of 1947
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to...
That's Entertainment! III
Several behind the scenes aspects of the movie-making business, which results in the enjoyment the movie going public has in going to the theater,...
The Romance of Celluloid
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
Breakdowns of 1938
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1944.
Breakdowns of 1944
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother...
Hollywood: Style Center of the World
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a...
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
An MGM short showing how materials are shipped by boat 'From the Ends of the Earth' to Hollywood. Featuring footage from the MGM films being made at...
From the Ends of the Earth
Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to...
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
James Earl Jones hosts this film based on two stories by the late Rod Serling, who wrote the stories of the original 'The Twilight Zone' (1959)...
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics