Willa Pearl Curtis

Val, un homme d'origine modeste, épouse en grande pompe Maggie Carleton, une riche héritière. Leur idylle s'annoncerait sous les meilleures auspices si elle ne reposait pas sur un malentendu. Par crainte de se voir opposé une fin de non recevoir, Val a «omis» d'avouer sa piètre condition financière à son épouse. Lorsque la mère de Val se présente pour lui souhaiter ses meilleurs voeux de bonheur, le personnel de la maison la prend pour la nouvelle bonne. Pris de court, Val tente de faire comprendre à sa mère qu'il conviendrait mieux, pour un temps, d'endosser cette fausse identité afin de ne pas compromettre son avenir...

Teachers at an all-black school fight to save a problem child.

Chicago, années 40. Bigger Thomas, un jeune homme noir, est engagé come chauffeur par une famille blanche. Sa vie prend un mauvais tournant lorsqu’il tue accidentellement Mary, la jeune fille de la famille, avant d’essayer de cacher son crime. Une fatale chasse à l’homme l’attend alors dans les bas quartiers de la ville.

A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.

A ruthless Texas oil baron and his non-believing daughter find God in this early witnessing film produced by and featuring Billy Graham.

Sunny is a 1941 film American film directed by Herbert Wilcox. It was adapted by Sig Herzig from the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical play Sunny. It stars Anna Neagle, Ray Bolger, John Carroll, Edward Everett Horton, Grace Hartman, Paul Hartman, Frieda Inescort, and Helen Westley.

This All-Star Comedy (production number 7437, and a remake of 1940's "The Heckler" with Charley Chase) has Shemp Howard, noise-maker and heckler deluxe, hired by two gamblers to rattle a ball team while the gamblers bet on the opponents. The gamblers are more than a little bit vexed when Shemp loses his voice.

After backing over a police motorcycle, Axel and Elmer are fined $100 and given 48 hours to come up with the money or go to jail. Knowing nothing about plumbing, they answer Mr. Skunkem's ad for plumber's assistants, and are sent to the Dinwitty estate to recover a diamond ring from a drain pipe. In due course they destroy the bathroom, and switch the gas and water lines, disrupting Mrs. Dinwitty's bridge party, Vanillia's dinner preparation, and the gardener's lawn watering.

Don Birnam est un alcoolique de longue date. Voilà dix jours qu'il n'a pas touché à une goutte d'alcool, et il semble sur la bonne voie. S'arrangeant pour ne pas aller passer un week-end à la campagne avec son frère et sa petite amie, il se retrouve seul pour quatre jours de cuite sévère. Il repense à son passé, souvent gâché par la bouteille. Cette fois, sa descente aux enfers sera sa dernière, d'une façon ou d'une autre.

Most of the footage is devoted to the annual Passion Play at Lawton, Oklahoma, enacted by volunteers from several nearby communities. This portion of The Lawton Story was directed by Harold Daniels and narrated by radio announcer Knox Manning. To bring the film up to feature length, a fictional plotline concerning the preparations for the pageant was hastily assembled, featuring such familiar Hollywood character players as Forrest Taylor, Willa Pearl Curtis and Maude Eburne.

A teenage girl from a traditional family goes on a date with a pilot and ends up having sex with him. After the pilot dies in a plane crash, the girl discovers she is pregnant with his child. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

Danny O'Neill et Hank Taylor intègrent le célèbre orchestre d'Artie Shaw avec l'aide de Ellen, leur nouvel impresario. Mais les deux amis trompettistes commencent à se lier d'affection avec la jeune femme.

Weighing themselves on a penny machine, the Our Gang kids receive a fortune card predicting that they will receive "unexpected riches." Acting upon this, the kids decide to dig for buried treasure, using a fraudulent map provided by one of their wise-guy acquaintances.

Manuela vit aux Caraïbes. Elle est promise au richissime maire de la ville mais n'en a cure ; elle rêve d'aventure et de dépaysement et son héros est le redoutable pirate Macoco. Un saltimbanque, tombé amoureux de Manuela, va utiliser ses talents d'acteurs, se faire passer pour ce pirate afin de se faire aimer d'elle...

When Bigshot Jones gives his unnamed dog to the All-For-One Club, Buckwheat quickly names the canine "Smallpox", inadvertently causing a city-wide panic.

Dans une grande demeure du Sud, une femme tyrannique et amorale manipule de façon diabolique son entourage.

Un héros de la guerre de Corée décorée collabore inexplicablement avec l'ennemi alors enterré dans un camp de prisonniers de guerre et est en cour martiale.

Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.

Suite d' "Alfred Hitchcock présente", cette série est une anthologie de petites histoires noires.