DRAMA
A Farewell to Arms
Published 1932
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An American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love in Italy during World War I.
Director: Frank Borzage
Writers: Benjamin Glazer (screenplay), Oliver H.P. Garrett (screenplay)
Stars: Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou
Abraham Lincoln
Published 1930
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An episodic biography of the 16th President of the United States.
Director: D.W. Griffith
Writers: Stephen Vincent Benet (adapted for the screen by), John W. Considine Jr. (story)
Stars: Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne
Chained For Life
Published 1952
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A Siamese twin kills the husband who left her. The courts have to decide if she is convicted of murder, how can they punish her sister, who had nothing to do with the crime?
Director: Harry L. Fraser
Writers: Nat Tanchuck (screenplay), Albert DePina (additional dialogue) (as Albert de Pina
Stars: Violet Hilton, Daisy Hilton, Mario Laval
Cyrano De Bergerac
Published 1950
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The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves in this straightforward version of the play.
Director: Michael Gordon
Writers: Edmond Rostand (play), Brian Hooker (play)
Stars: José Ferrer, Mala Powers, William Prince
Fire Over England
Published 1937
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Queen Elizabeth is running this show. The men in her court should be thinking about how to add to the glory of the Elizabethan Age and how to foil those pesky Spanish who got far too much influence in England when her older sister Mary was on the throne after their father Henry VIII was succeeded by their sickly half brother. Elizabeth thinks Michael Ingolby can do great things. Michael is mostly thinking about one of Elizabeth's ladies in waiting, Cynthia. Soon his mind is on survival when Elizabeth sends him on a voyage to Spain.
Director: William K. Howard
Writers: A.E.W. Mason (novel), Clemence Dane (screenplay)
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Flora Robson, Vivien Leigh
Glorifying the American Girl
Published 1929
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The rise of a showgirl, Gloria Hughes, culminating in a Ziegfeld extravaganza "Glorifying the American Girl".
Director: Millard Webb
Writers: J.P. McEvoy (from the story by), Millard Webb (from the story by)
Stars: Mary Eaton, Eddie Cantor, Helen Morgan
A Star is Born
Published 1937
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A young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, but achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him.
Directors: William A. Wellman, Jack Conway (uncredited)
Writers: Dorothy Parker (screen play by), Alan Campbell (screen play by) | 3 more credits »
Stars: Janet Gaynor, Fredric March, Adolphe Menjou
Of Human Bondage
Published 1934
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A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.
Director: John Cromwell
Writers: Lester Cohen (screen play), W. Somerset Maugham (from the novel by)
Stars: Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Frances Dee
Meet John Doe
Published 1941
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A man needing money agrees to impersonate a nonexistent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a political movement begins.
Director: Frank Capra
Writers: Richard Connell (based on a story by), Robert Presnell Sr. (based on a story by) (as Robert Presnell)
Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold
Penny Serenade
Published 1941
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A couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unexpected sadness and unexpected joy.
Director: George Stevens
Writers: Morrie Ryskind (screen play), Martha Cheavens (story)
Stars: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Beulah Bondi
Scarlet Street
Published 1945
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When a man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, her venal fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses.
Director: Fritz Lang
Writers: Georges de La Fouchardière (novel) (as Georges De La Fouchardiere), André Mouézy-Éon (novel) (as Mouezy-Eon) | 1 more credit »
Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
The Birth of a Nation
Published 1915
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The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
Director: D.W. Griffith
Writers: Thomas Dixon Jr. (adapted from his novel: "The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan") (as Thomas F. Dixon Jr.), Thomas Dixon Jr. (play) (as Thomas F. Dixon Jr.) | 3 more credits »
Stars: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall
The Stranger
Published 1946
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An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi.
Director: Orson Welles
Writers: Anthony Veiller (screenplay), Victor Trivas (adaptation)
Stars: Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young
Broken Blossoms
Published 1919
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A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.
Director: D.W. Griffith
Writers: Thomas Burke (adapted from 'The Chink and the Child' by), D.W. Griffith
("The Yellow Man and the Girl" original film title)
Stars: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp