Romance;Comedy

<p>A perky tenant (Jane Wyman) shows the uptight new owner of her apartment house (David Niven) that both the building and his personal life are badly in need of repair.</p>

<p>Live and learn, the saying goes. Japanese businessman and widower Koichi Asano (Alec Guinness) and Brooklyn widow Bertha Jacoby (Rosalind Russell) are at an age when they've done a lot of living and learning. Now, with a bit of luck, love may reenter their...

<p>Any Wednesday you'll find slick business tycoon John Cleves (Jason Robards) cuddling up with Ellen Gordon (Jane Fonda) in what she calls her apartment and what tax-conscious John calls his company's executive suite. It's a cozy arrangement until one Wednesday is followed by that...

<p>America was sprawling away from Main Street, transforming into a nation of bedroom communities within easy commute of the office. But what's going on in those bedrooms? Bob Hope intends to find out when he plays a Bachelor in Paradise. Always quick with a...

<p>Unemployed Polly Parrish (Ginger Rogers) impulsively picks up a baby left at orphanage doors at Christmas. Everyone assumes the foundling is hers, including Polly's playboy ex-boss (David Niven), who offers her a job if she'll live up to her maternal duties. A paycheck would...

<p>Paula (Goldie Hawn) and Richard (Burt Reynolds) are a happy, successful Hollywood screenwriting team. They know and love each other, and live together. So why, already, did they get married and spoil it all? Best Friends is a comic marriage uniting screen favorites Hawn...

<p>Her name is Nora Hunter (Laraine Day), but call her Sylvia. Wartime shipbuilding magnate Nora poses as her secretary Sylvia to ward off newshounds and marriage-minded fortune hunters. Meanwhile, the secretary poses as Nora to attend all ship christenings and public functions. But when...

<p>From best-selling humorist Max Shulman (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis) comes this zany comedy starring Van Johnson, Janet Leigh and Louis Calhern, based on a story cowritten by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Herman Wouk (The Caine Mutiny). When expectant housewife Connie Bedloe (Leigh) is...

<p>Charlotte Bain (Christine Lahti, The Doctor, Swing Shift) is the perfect high school principal for small-town Texas: quiet, strict, strait-laced. Single, but secretly dating the coach (William Russ, Pastime), she is as shocked as anyone when she agrees to go on a date with...

<p>Gena Rowlands, Holly Hunter, Frances McDormand and Julian Sands star in a story about the passion that comes with a love beyond reason. A story about life, about laughter, about being Crazy in Love. Georgie (Holly Hunter) is confused about life. She loves her...

<p>Bill Cleaver (Grant Withers) lives to dance. The winner of 11 straight cups at Hoffman's Parisian Dance Palace, he cinches the waltz contest with newcomer Molly O' Neil (Sue Carol), the niftiest little trick in town. So when the management offers them a free...

<p>Oscar-nominated comedy stars Academy Award-winner Cary Grant ("The Awful Truth," "Suspicion," "North by Northwest") as an executive who leaves his overly-ambitious wife to marry the exotic daughter of a sheik who is trained in the art of pleasing a man. Unexpected drawbacks make Grant...

<p>In Elmer the Great and two more baseball-themed hits, fan and former semi-pro player Joe E. Brown wound up and pitched winning comedy. In Eleven Men and a Girl, he swaps horsehide for pigskin and -- surrounded by the 1929 All-American football team, who...

<p>Joe E. Brown scores laughter and hits a grand slam in the baseball comedy Elmer, the Great, based on play by Ring Lardner and George M. Cohan. The pride of Gentryville, Indiana, small town slugger Elmer Kane (Brown) is the king of batters, celebrated...

<p>Sales clerk Anabel Sims believes Every Girl Should be Married. And she has the target, er, groom picked out: pediatrician Madison Brown. Unfortunately, Dr. Brown is not interested in marriage or in Anabel. But not to worry -- Anabel's sure she can outmaneuver any...

<p>Manufacturing executive Alfred Borden (Walter Connolly) walks through his luxurious Manhattan home, singing Happy Birthday to himself. His family -- from inattentive wife (Verree Teasdale) to insouciant son (Tim Holt) to a giddy daughter (Kathryn Adams) drawn to the family's Marxist-leaning chauffeur -- all...

<p>Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland infuse Hollywood classics with romance, daring and legendary screen chemistry. That chemistry reaches giddy heights in the screwball romp Four's a Crowd, the only comedy the stars made together. Flynn plays a PR dynamo who rigs a toy...

<p>Extra! Extra! Laugh all about it! Bette Davis and George Brent star in this comic battle of the sexes filled with good-natured rivalry and romance. Reporters Ellen Garfield (Davis) and Curt Devlin (Brent) are very much in love, but working at competing newspapers. Curt's...

<p>Dollar-a-year-man Ed Browne (Sonny Tufts) may be skilled at building bombers, but he's a nincompoop about navigating wartime Washington. Good thing he has a livewire secretary with plenty of bureaucratic moxie to get him out of (but sometimes into) hot water. Of course the...

<p>Playing a high-rise window washer with high aspirations, Dick Powell sets the ebullient tone, crooning the title tune and more songs. Ingenue Josephine Hutchinson is the society girl attracted to the working man while hiding her family's deep pockets. Frank McHugh, Allen Jenkins, Ruth...

Society girl Margaret Richards, in full snit, has roared off in the family valet's car without a cent in her pocket. But now there's a matter of $3.48 to be paid at the gas station and the attendant isn't buying her promise of payment...

<p>Society girl Margaret Richards, in full snit, has roared off in the family valet's car without a cent in her pocket. But now there's a matter of $3.48 to be paid at the gas station and the attendant isn't buying her promise of payment...

<p>Ginger Rogers also stars alongside Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in this screen adaptation of the Broadway play about young Romeos and Juliets who escape the grit and grind of Depression-era New York City for the canoeing and canoodling of Camp Kare-Free. The stars shine brightly...

<p>CHARMING HONG KONG ROMANTIC FARCE IN THE TRADITION OF VICTOR/VICTORIA Pop music super fan Lam Chi Wing disguises herself as a man so she can meet her idol, Rose, at an audition for male singers being staged by Rose's producer/boyfriend, Sam. The couple's relationship...

<p>"You must stay between him and me always. Always!" Love-struck Consuelo Croyden (Norma Shearer) can't trust herself around dashing Tony Barling (George Sanders). So she hires songwriter Terry Trindale (Robert Taylor), who's just as nuts about her as she is about Tony, to pose...

<p>Every princess needs a Prince Charming. But lovely Princess Veronica didn't expect hers to be bellhop Jimmy Dobson. Hedy Lamarr is the princess, Robert Walker is the bellhop and June Allyson is a bedridden former dancer who secretly loves Jimmy in this frothy fairy...

<p>Alec Guinness and Gina Lollobrigida lead an international cast in this sparkling Gallic comedy, originally written by French dramatist Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres. The lavish setting is the gilded fin de siecle era known as La Belle Epoque. Guinness plays Benedict Boniface, a...

<p>Elliott Gould and Diane Keaton take out a lease on love with an option to buy in this glossy romantic comedy costarring Paul Sorvino, Victoria Principal and Candy Clark. Unhappily divorced after 10 years of marriage, Les Bingham (Gould) finally convinces his ex-wife Katie...

<p>It's 1944 and Americans are in the mood for something to take their minds off the challenges of World War II -- something like a juicy sex scandal. At the same time, naive, 15-year-old Sonny Wisecarver (Patrick Dempsey) is in the mood for love...

<p>After a food spill ruins the haute couture fashion she's supposed to model at an elegant charity soiree, ex-shopgirl Irene O'Dare (Anna Neagle) puts on a vintage blue gown that belonged to her late mother. The dress - showcased in a rich Technicolor sequence...

<p>Take three of the funniest, cleverest actors in the movies plop them on a gorgeous, real-life Greek isle and add a feverish plot that involves an ingenious scam, big money, lighthearted romance and a lisping gangster and you have Island of Love. On the...

<p>No sex, please -- we're on our honeymoon! After a showgirl (Debbie Reynolds) and an Air Force sergeant (Glenn Ford) head to the altar on the basis of one torrid smooch, the bride begins having second thoughts. After all, marriage can't be based on...

<p>In a rare light comedy performance, a vivacious Bette Davis matches wits with the debonair Robert Montgomery. Linda Gilman (Davis) is a hard-boiled magazine editor who thinks she can do just fine without love - even after her old flame, flippant foreign correspondent Carey...

<p>When Max Herschel (Alan King), the ruthless magnate who has everything, loses his executive mistress Bones Burton (Ali MacGraw) to a young playwright (Peter Weller), he carves out a whole new battlefield in the war between the sexes! Director Sidney Lumet's sophisticated comedy, written...

<p>Opposites attract in this slapstick comedy romance starring Clark Gable and Loretta Young in their first and final pairing since The Call of the Wild (1935). When stevedore-turned-mayor Steve Fisk (Gable) arrives at San Francisco's national mayors convention, he naturally mistakes Clarissa Standish (Young)...

<p>It's start-to-finish laughs when Polly Bergen ("Making Mr. Right," "The Winds of War") is America's first female president and Fred MacMurray ("My Three Sons") is the husband who has to cope with his new title of "First Man."</p>

<p>Frumpy Kitty Brown is a devoted wife -- until she discovers her husband has a sweetie on the side. So Kitty throws the bum out and heads for the beauty parlor. Three years later, now-glamorous Kitty accepts grande dame Bouccy Bouccicault's invitation for the...

<p>She plays the cello. He plays the field She's coltishly young. He's worldly and mature Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane knows she's not like millionaire American playboy Frank Flanagan. But if she pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as he is, maybe...

<p>"Notoriously pretty and wearing her dancing tights with aplomb" (Newsweek), Elizabeth Taylor makes her screen transition from junior miss to romantic ingenue in this frothy frolic directed by Stanley Donen (Singin' in the Rain). Taylor plays small-town dance instructor Stacie Macaboy, who travels to...

<p>Newshounds battle gangsters in two light-hearted, lightning-paced crime-time capers. Ronald Reagan makes his screen debut in Love Is on the Air as a radio announcer (Reagan's real-life job before Hollywood) who's bounced to the kiddies' hour when he pursues a gangster against his sponsor's...

<p>Gene Raymond sticks out a thumb and pulls in a plum in this "diverting and fresh" (The New York Times) screwball comedy costarring Wendy Barrie and Helen Broderick. When no one will finance his play, would-be producer Michael MacCreigh (Raymond) bets his rich uncle...

<p>Forget about accountants who want to fly, professors whose brains are being zapped by aliens and bored housewives passing the time. The one all-consuming problem Manhattan psychiatrist Saul Benjamin has is himself! Saul (Dudley Moore) and Chloe (Elizabeth McGovern), one of his patients, are...

<p>Heiress Cora Jordan vows to make her own way in the world and, after a day of job-hunting, couldn't be more surprised. Why? One: no one hires her. Two: she meets Bill Overton, a flat-broke Knight-errant of a gambler, and teams with him to...

<p>Book publisher Bob McKellaway is engaged to beautiful young Tiffany Richards. Everyone thinks she's perfect for him. Everyone except Bob's ex-wife Mary (Debbie Reynolds in a sparkling performance). She may know someone else who'd be even better for Bob: herself. This delightful, sophisticated marital...

<p>Would-be ghosts. UFO voyagers. A chicken that pecks out "Moonlight Sonata" on the piano -- blindfolded! They're the kind of stories that keep the National Mirror in the nation's shopping carts. And they're the kind of stories that make the tabloid's reporters think they've...

<p>Hugh Grant, James Caan and Jeanne Tripplehorn star in this romantic comedy about an English-born Manhattan art dealer whose impending marriage is threatened after his fiance reveals that her father is in the Mafia.</p>

<p>When a rodeo cowpuncher lassos a Park Avenue pigeon, and weds and whisks the sophisticated lady to his ramshackle Wyoming ranch, there's Never a Dull Moment -- and many funny ones in this unabashedly corny but charming roundup. As a Broadway songwriter swapping city...

<p>Seven-year-old Phillippa "Flip" Gayley (Patti Brady) wants a family her own. So she plots to get her divorced parents, who love her (and secretly each other), back to the altar. Will she succeed? Well, just take a glance at the title. Errol Flynn (spoofing...

<p>As soon as he sees those curves, Korean War flight commander Tank Martin (George C. Scott) is figuring the angles. All he needs to do is get rid of his equally blonde-crazy Air Force buddy Tom Ferris (Tony Curtis) and a certain gorgeous nurse...

<p>An American burlesque girl intent on social climbing unknowingly marries a Nazi in the guise of an Austrian Baron. When an American radio reporter tracks the couple down to investigate, she inadvertently falls in love with the reporter instead.</p>