1944
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- DirectorPreston SturgesStarsEddie BrackenBetty HuttonDiana LynnAfter an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.
- DirectorOtto PremingerRouben MamoulianStarsGene TierneyDana AndrewsClifton WebbA police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsEric PortmanSheila SimDennis PriceThree modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsMark DanielsEdmond O'BrienLon McCallisterPinkie Scariano, Alan Ross and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the five struggle through the rigid training and grueling tests involved in becoming pilots. Not all of them succeed, and tragedy awaits some.
- DirectorGunther von FritschRobert WiseStarsSimone SimonKent SmithJane RandolphThe young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed befriends her father's dead first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.
- DirectorBasil DeardenAlberto CavalcantiStarsMervyn JohnsGlynis JohnsTom WallsA group of travellers, all with something to hide in their past, take shelter from a storm in an old inn. The inn-keeper seems a little mysterious...
- DirectorGeorge MarshallStarsDorothy LamourFred MacMurrayBetty HuttonThe singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy (Dorothy Lamour), Bobby (Betty Hutton), Josie (Diana Lynn) and Patti (Mimi Chandler), aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc with the plans of Pop Angel (Raymond Walburn) to buy a soy bean farm. They do accept an offer of ten dollars to sing at a dubious night club on the edge of town where a band led by Happy Marshall (Fred MacMurray) is playing. Bobby takes the ten dollars and runs it up to $190 at the dice table. Happy hits on Nancy, but she rebuffs him. He doesn't have the money to pay his band and borrows the gambling winnings from Bobby on the pretext that he will give her a job with his band. Bobby discovers the next day that Happy has hastily departed for New York. The girls follow to a night club where he is working and, after an audition, the manager is willing to give Happy a contract if the girls will sing with his band.
- DirectorDelmer DavesStarsDennis MorganEleanor ParkerDane ClarkArmy sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, two young women who work in a parachute factory.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleGeorge CukorStarsGinger RogersJoseph CottenShirley TempleA soldier suffering from combat fatigue meets a young woman on Christmas furlough from prison and their mutual loneliness blossoms into romance.
- DirectorLaurence OlivierStarsLaurence OlivierRobert NewtonLeslie BanksIn the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsEdward G. RobinsonJoan BennettRaymond MasseyWhen a conservative middle aged professor engages in a relationship with a femme fatale, he's plunged into a nightmarish world of blackmail and murder.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsLaird CregarMerle OberonGeorge SandersA landlady suspects that her new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsWalter BrennanJeanne CrainLon McCallisterA lad with a penchant for trouble is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in Indiana. Though he's not happy about the arrangement at first, his love of horses and his affection for a young filly that he plans to race make life bearable. He also finds romance with tomboyish Char who shares his love for horses.
- DirectorH. Bruce HumberstoneStarsBetty GrableJohn HarveyMartha RayeA U.S.O. singer poses as a Broadway star in order to attract a handsome war hero.
- DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsTallulah BankheadJohn HodiakWalter SlezakSeveral survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.
- DirectorMark SandrichStarsBing CrosbyBetty HuttonSonny TuftsShow business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.
- DirectorJohn CromwellEdward F. ClineTay GarnettStarsClaudette ColbertJennifer JonesJoseph CottenWith her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife must care for their two daughters alone.
- DirectorMark SandrichStarsPaulette GoddardSonny TuftsBeulah BondiDuring World War II in San Francisco, Eve Morgan and her single girlfriends spend their days welding ships and their nights dancing with soldiers and sailors shipping out that night. Eve is determined to avoid any romantic entanglements until the war is over and she refuses to spend her days and nights worrying about getting bad news about a man she has fallen for. But she doesn't count on meeting a soldier who is determined to change her mind.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsCharles LaughtonElla RainesDean HarensAn unhappily married man begins a flirtation with a younger woman. When his wife threatens to ruin her, he decides to take action.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsFranchot ToneElla RainesAlan CurtisA devoted secretary risks her life to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his selfish wife.
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsCarmen MirandaMichael O'SheaVivian BlaineThe oddly-assorted Hart cousins--revue singer Blossom, con man Harry and machinist Chiquita (who gets radio through her teeth!)--inherit Southern plantation Magnolia Manor, which alas proves to be a "termite trap" and tax liability. Fortunately, Sgt. Rocky Fulton from a nearby army camp appears with a plan to convert the place into a hotel for Army wives but to pay bills until then, they decide to put on a show. Of course, romantic and military complications intervene.
- DirectorCarol ReedStarsDavid NivenStanley HollowayJames DonaldWorld War II drama that follows a group of British draftees, starting with their rigorous basic training, and ending with their deployment in North Africa.
- DirectorJohn M. StahlIrving PichelStarsAnne BaxterWilliam EytheMichael O'SheaHometown boy Quizz West (William Eythe) is one of fewer than 19,000 draftees in 1940. After being familiarized with his fiancée Janet and him, we find Quizz at a gun position fighting off the Japanese along the Philippine shoreline. The situation becomes hopeless for Quizz and his fellow gunners and it's either flee or hold their positions and provide cover for escapees. To make his decision, Quizz communes with his mother and Janet through the medium of dreams.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsFred MacMurrayBarbara StanwyckEdward G. RobinsonA Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.
- DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsDeanna DurbinGene KellyRichard WhorfA young femme fatale-type woman realizes that the man she married is an incorrigible wastrel.
- DirectorPreston SturgesStarsEddie BrackenElla RainesRaymond WalburnWoodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home.
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsJean ArthurLee BowmanCharles CoburnTo rekindle their love, a divorce judge orders a couple whose marriage is on the rocks to re-enact their four-day breakneck courtship.
- DirectorElliott NugentStarsDanny KayeDana AndrewsDinah ShoreHypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted into the army and makes life miserable for his fellow GIs. He's also lovesick when it comes to pretty Mary Morgan, unaware that she's in love with his best friend Joe.
- DirectorLewis AllenStarsRay MillandRuth HusseyDonald CrispA composer and his sister discover that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply is the house's unsavory past.
- DirectorWilliam WylerStarsStanley WrayRobert MorganJames A. VerinisA documentary on the 25th bombing mission of the Memphis Belle, a B-17 in the US 8th Air Force.
- DirectorBernard MilesCharles SaundersStarsBernard MilesRosamund JohnNiall MacGinnisJimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and his nurse Hazel Broome, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field. After a run-in with the army and a couple of thieves, they, with the cooperation of the village people and the Ornithology Society, help the eggs to hatch. A wonderful look at life in a small village during World War II.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJack CarsonJohn FordEddie FosterA training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines, covering cover and concealment, ambush techniques, etc.
- DirectorWilliam CastleStarsRobert MitchumKim HunterDean JaggerA naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsGary CooperLaraine DaySigne HassoWhen the U.S. forces withdraw from Java, ahead of the Japanese invasion, U.S. Navy doctor Corydon M. Wassell coordinates the remaining wounded servicemen and leads them to safety towards the last Allied evacuation points.
- DirectorPat JacksonStarsEric FullertonDuncan MacKenzieW. KerrA wartime film, made under the auspices of the Crown Film Unit, serving as a tribute to the Merchant Navy. During WWII, they kept the lifeline to America and the Commonwealth open so that this little island could fight on. Even as late as 1943/4 when this was made, the convoys still provided vital essential supplies as well as the materiel necessary to take the fight into Europe. This film dramatizes the experiences of many merchant seamen.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsBenny GoodmanBenny Goodman and His OrchestraLinda DarnellAfter their annual free concert at Chicago's Dearborn Settlement, Benny Goodman and his band are packing up to move on to their next engagement at a military camp, when a kid, Tony Birch, steals Goodman's clarinet. Goodman and Popsie pursue him to a tenement flat where he has led them to hear his brother, Johnny Birch, play the trombone. Goodman offers him a job, over Popsie's protest, with the band. Aboard the train, Johnny accidentally enters the compartment of the band's singer, Pat Sterling, and gets his face slapped. At the military camp, which turns out to be a boy's military academy (which accounts for juvenile players such as Dickie Moore and Harry McKin running around with such titles as General and Major), Goodman finds a real audience in the jive-mad, jitterbug kids. Masquerading as a sweet, 16-year-old girl friend of one of the cadets who is, in reality, her nephew, Trudy Wilson meets her old friend Goodman who introduces her to Johnny, whose music she admired. However, Johnny brushes her off, thinking she is just a kid. Months later, while practicing for their opening at the exclusive Leopard Room in NYC, Johnny runs into Trudy, and is furious that she has followed him to New York. Pat tells Johnny that Trudy is the débutante daughter of Norman Wilson, who runs the symphony association. Johnny decides she is out of his league but they fall for each other when he invites her to a jam session. At a swank party at Trudy's house, where Goodman plays the Mozart Quintet, one of the snobbish guests makes a remark when Johnny's brother Tony, sister Helen and his mother suddenly appear. A brawl ensues and Johnny, feeling he has disgraced himself in front of Trudy, flings his resignation at Goodman and stalks out. Pat's manager gets her to break with Goodman, sets up Johnny as a name band, and hires the Goodman band to join.
- DirectorJohn EnglishStarsRoy RogersTriggerDale EvansA ranch owner fires his ranch hands and brings in women to replace them. The owner's daughter wants the male hands back and comes up with a plan to do it.
- DirectorAlfred L. WerkerStarsSharyn MoffettJill EsmondUna O'ConnorA girl with a strict governess heads to Washington to purchase her dog from the Secretary of War.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsAlexander KnoxCharles CoburnGeraldine FitzgeraldA chronicle of the political career of US President Woodrow Wilson.
- DirectorWalter LangStarsCarmen MirandaDon AmecheWilliam BendixIn 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.
- DirectorSidney LanfieldStarsPaulette GoddardFred MacMurrayEdward ArnoldDuring World War II, Lee Stevens travels to Washington D.C. with his secretary Jane Rogers in order to secure a government contract. Not thinking it through, Jane cancels their hotel reservations when she feels the accommodations are inadequate. With no rooms available in the entire city, Lee and Jane pose as a married couple and take positions as maid and butler in the Cromwell's home until the contract can be secured.
- DirectorWilliam KeighleyDocumentary about one bombing mission over Germany by the American Eighth Air Force, from the initial planning of the mission thru its final completion, with all of its intricacies from beginning to end.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsCharles BoyerIngrid BergmanJoseph CottenTen years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the home rises from a secret that may require driving his wife insane.
- 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.
- DirectorRené ClairStarsDick PowellLinda DarnellJack OakieA young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
- DirectorCharles VidorStarsRita HayworthGene KellyLee BowmanRusty Parker wins a contest and becomes a celebrated cover girl; this endangers her romance with dancing mentor Danny.
- DirectorHenry HathawayStarsDon AmecheDana AndrewsWilliam EytheIn WW2, an American aircraft carrier sails around the Pacific on a decoy mission until it joins the battle of Midway against the Japanese forces.
- DirectorOtto PremingerStarsJeanne CrainFrank LatimoreEugene PalletteA young bride who comes from a rich family has a hard time adjusting to life in a boarding house with other soldiers and their wives. Her spoiled ways cause resentment from the other wives and problems with her husband.
- DirectorFrank RyanStarsDeanna DurbinRobert PaigeAkim TamiroffA senator's daughter (who can't help singing) follows her boyfriend West in the days of the California gold rush.
- DirectorLeslie ArlissStarsMargaret LockwoodStewart GrangerTom WallsAfter concert pianist Lissa Campbell learns that she has a serious heart problem. she vows to enjoy what time she has left. On taking her first holiday she meets Kit Firth, a pilot on leave whose vision has been impaired due to a bomb explosion while he was on active service. Kit is searching for a rare mineral Britian needs in the war effort. Following an explosion at the local tin mine, Kit and several others are trapped, but due to his knowledge of the mine workings, he leads the others to safety. But his greatest challenge is to come, when he has to undergo an operation, that hopefully may keep him from going blind. This operation has a slim chance of being successful. This video is available in VHS PAL format under the series named, "The Margaret Lockwood Collection".
- DirectorHeinz RühmannStarsHertha FeilerHans SöhnkerHans NielsenA man meets a girl in an Alpine Lodge and decide to make the relation permanent, but they lose each other, each thinking the other to be disloyal. When the meet again, both are engaged, to others, and she is mother of his child.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsAnne BaxterCharles WinningerJohn HodiakA poor family in Florida saves all the money they can in order to plan something special for the soldier they've invited to Sunday dinner. They don't realize that their request to invite the soldier never got mailed. On the day of the scheduled dinner, another soldier is brought to their home and love soon blossoms between him and Tessa, the young woman who runs the home.
- DirectorJohn BrahmJohn CromwellAndré De TothStarsAnne BaxterRalph BellamyAline MacMahonA young manipulative woman moves in with her fiancé's family and turns a happy household against itself.
- DirectorAlf SjöbergStarsStig JärrelAlf KjellinMai ZetterlingAn idealistic adolescent suffering under the thumb of a sadistic schoolmaster falls in love with a loose girl who is bullied and tormented by another lover.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsRobert HuttonEdward ArnoldAnn HardingJanie is a scatterbrained, high spirited teenage girl living in the small town of Hortonville. World War II causes the establishment of an Army camp just outside town. Janie and her bobby-soxer friends have their hearts set aflutter by the prospect of so many young soldiers residing nearby. Which fella will they choose? But if Janie's family has a say in the matter.
- DirectorRichard BrooksLouis HaywardStarsAlexander Bonnyman Jr.John BorichMerritt A. EdsonDocumentary short film depicting the harrowing battle between the U.S. Marines and the Japanese for control of the Pacific island of Tarawa.
- DirectorCharles BartonStarsAnn MillerJess BarkerCharles D. BrownTerry Baxter is a never-say-die Hollywood newcomer from Waterfall Kansas, determined to make it big. And does she have talent. Filled, of course, with lots of musical numbers that showcase her many talents.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsBasil RathboneNigel BruceGerald HamerWhen a gentlewoman is found dead with her throat torn out, the villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer.
- DirectorRoy William NeillStarsBasil RathboneNigel BruceDennis HoeyWhen a valuable pearl with a sinister reputation is stolen, Sherlock Holmes must investigate its link to a series of brutal murders.
- DirectorDavid ButlerSidney LanfieldStarsBob HopeVirginia MayoWalter BrennanA cowardly actor and a runaway princess are voyaging on a ship that is captured by a notorious pirate who recently buried his treasure on a secretly mapped island.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsRay MillandMarjorie ReynoldsCarl EsmondStephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War II in England when he accidentally stumbles onto a deadly Nazi spy plot and tries to stop it.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsLewis StoneMickey RooneyFay HoldenAndy starts freshman life at Wainwright College and gets caught up with helping blonde twin sisters.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsBrian DonlevyAnn RichardsWalter AbelStefan Dangos immigrates to America and works his way up from the iron mines and steel mills to become a great American success story as an industrialist.
- DirectorFrank LaunderStarsPhyllis CalvertFlora RobsonPatricia RocWomen in a French internment camp conceal downed British airmen from German soldiers, and try to help them escape. Produced by Edward Black. Written and directed by Frank Launder.
- DirectorHarold FrenchStarsMichael WildingMargaret RutherfordPenelope Dudley-WardWhile bird-fancier Lady Christabel Beauclark (Dame Margaret Rutherford) scurries around demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family's butler, Tom Gilbey (Michael Wilding). The birds are forgotten when war breaks out, and Gilbey now finds himself in love with the niece whose love was previously unrequited.
- DirectorDelmer DavesStarsBette DavisJohn GarfieldThe Andrews SistersTwo soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
- DirectorFrank CapraAnatole LitvakStarsClaire ChennaultKai-Shek ChiangMadame ChiangThe Official World War II US Government account of Chinese defense against Japanese aggression.
- DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsJudy GarlandMargaret O'BrienMary AstorYoung love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
- DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsDick PowellClaire TrevorAnne ShirleyAfter being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
- DirectorCharles BartonStarsAnn MillerJoe BesserLarry ParksMusical comedy star Jimmy Leighter wants to get away from show biz and his leading lady Winnie Clark, so he joins the Army. There he gets the order to put on a show. Winnie Clark appears in a camp show, hears about his task and offers him her help. He thinks she's doing it for her publicity only, so he doesn't want to know anything about it, till he finds out that she has no such intentions.
- DirectorDavid LeanStarsRobert NewtonCelia JohnsonJohn MillsJust after World War I, the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. They live an ordinary life throughout the years, but everything changes when World War II breaks out.
- DirectorLeopold LindtbergHermann HallerFranz SchnyderStarsJosiane HeggGermaine TournierHeinrich GretlerAmidst the Nazi invasion of France in 1942, a young girl is evacuated to Switzerland but is still haunted by the terrors she has witnessed.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsJoan FontaineArturo de CórdovaBasil RathboneAn English lady falls madly in love with a French pirate.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsLana TurnerJames CraigJohn HodiakTheo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been married many times, Theo is unsure of commitment. Without much thought, she finally accepts the proposal of Air Corps Lieutenant Tom West. After the honeymoon, Tom's father dies and Tom goes into the defense industry. When Theo has a baby, she hates the idea of being matronly and wants to be the old party girl. The problem is that her husband is working constantly. She looks to her friends, who are having their own problems, and to her old flame Captain Lancing. To decide on what she wants to do with her baby and her life, Theo must grow up.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancFrank GrahamPvt. Snafu's unit suffers the consequences of him blabbing military secrets while on leave at home.
- DirectorFriz FrelengFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancFrank GrahamSnafu learns of the folly of hoarding and wasting military food supplies.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancRobert C. BruceUsing Snafu as an example, Techanical Fairy First Class teaches the methods of effective camouflage.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancBilly BletcherSnafu learns the need of keeping his gas mask at hand when he is attacked by anthropomorphic gas cloud.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancBea BenaderetSara BernerWhen Snafu gets his wish to have his personal mail uncensored by the military, he inadvertently reveals military secrets that lead to disaster.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancRobert C. BrucePvt. Snafu thinks he's too smart to get caught by an enemy booby trap, but he soon finds that the traps are alluring and that he is every bit the booby.
- DirectorOsmond EvansStarsMel BlancRobert C. BruceAn examination of the economic concept and how it is aggravated by soldiers stationed in local overseas economies.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancBilly BletcherSnafu learns hard way the consequences of not protecting himself from malaria infection.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancTedd PiercePvt. Snafu becomes a superhero, only for him to become the world's dumbest one because he won't study his field manuals.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancRobert C. BruceSnafu has an object lesson on the value of complete and accurate regular reports when he discovers and reports evidence of the enemy's presence at his assigned area.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancTechnical Fairy First Class shows Snafu the consequences of frittering away his pay.
- DirectorFriz FrelengFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancRobert C. BruceA armada of malaria-laden mosquitoes seeks human targets and finds Private Snafu who fails to protect himself adequately against their onslaught.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancDissatisfied with being assigned to shoe consignment detail, Snafu learns about the true value of his responsibilities
- DirectorAndré De TothStarsMarsha HuntAlexander KnoxHenry TraversThe career of a German officer shown as flashbacks from his trial as a war criminal.
- DirectorPreston SturgesStarsJoel McCreaBetty FieldHarry CareyThe biography of Dr. W. T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
- DirectorHarry Joe BrownStarsNelson EddyCharles CoburnConstance DowlingIt's 1650 in New Amsterdam, and Brom Broeck, a young outspoken newspaper publisher is arrested for printing advanced opinions on the undemocratic rule of Governor "Peg-Leg" Stuyvesant. While Brom is in prison, old "Peg-Leg" goes on the make for Brom's sweetheart. But, when "Peg-Leg" is forced to release Brom... Watch-out.
- DirectorLeslie FentonStarsFredric MarchBetty FieldAgnes MooreheadGerman boy Emil comes to live with his American uncle who tries to teach the former Hitler Youth to reject Nazism.
- DirectorGeorge A. CooperDocumentary depicting all the various different jobs that go to keep Waterloo Station running, illustrated via the device of one of the porters and his girl going to the local news cinema to watch a film about the station.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsMickey RooneyElizabeth TaylorDonald CrispA jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.
- DirectorGlenn TryonStarsBob CrosbyLynn MerrickLouise EricksonAfter receiving his military discharge, singer Don Collins proceeds to the address of the pen pal who corresponded with him while he was overseas. Helen Tyler answers the door and is perplexed by Don's expression of gratitude until she realizes that her teenage sister Susie is the singer's mysterious correspondent. The Tylers invite Don to dinner, and at the table he inadvertently offends schoolteacher Helen by criticizing all teachers. When Don speaks of the difficulty he has experienced finding a singing job, Susie decides to organize a fan club to launch Don's career. Enlisting the help of her neighbor and would-be boyfriend Howard Barnes, Susie writes a stack of fan letters and asks her relatives from around the country to post them. When R. N. Swanson, the owner of the local radio station, receives a deluge of letters in praise of Don, he hires the singer to appear on a radio spot. Susie recruits her friends to attend the broadcast and cheer on Don, making his performance a hit. Susie's decision to devote her life to promoting Don's career upsets her family, and when collect calls and telegrams from Don's fans come pouring into the Tyler house, Helen accuses Don of exploiting her sister. When Helen goes to the radio station to confront Don, Don invites her to dinner and Susie uses the opportunity to snap a publicity photo. The picture of Don and Helen appears in the local paper, and when the school administration worries that popular music may be corrupting the students, Helen suggests establishing a nightclub for the teenagers and Don promises to perform there. When Susie's hard work helps Don win his own radio program, he invites the teenager and her friends to be his guest at his opening at the Tahitian Room nightclub. Mistaking Don's gratitude for love, Susie decides to cause Don to lose interest in her older sister by telling him that Helen is engaged. Thinking that Helen has been leading him on, Don does not invite her to attend his performance. As Susie readies for her big night at the Tahitian Room, Helen wonders while Don excluded her from the party. Unknown to Susie, Swanson, who dislikes "bobby soxers," has arranged for the maitre d' to forget the teenagers' reservations, and when they arrive at the club, they are denied admission. Thinking that Don has forgotten her, Susie despondently returns home and breaks Don's record. When Helen tries to console her sister, Susie lets it slip that she lied to Don about Helen's engagement. Helen then shows Susie a letter from Swanson, notifying her that Don will be unable to perform at the teen club because of contractual obligations. The concept of a club for teenagers intrigues Quinlan, a local businessman, who attends opening night with the thought of starting up clubs all over the country. Susie, ashamed to face her friends with the bad news, decides to stay home until her mother convinces her that it is her duty to go to the club. When Susie announces that Don and the other performers will not appear, the teens stream out of the building. Just then, however, Don, alerted by Howard to Susie's problems, arrives and dedicates his first song to Susie. After Don convinces Susie that he is too old for her, he apologizes to Helen. Susie then turns to Howard, a "man her own age," and all ends happily when Quinlan decides to launch teen clubs throughout America.
- DirectorHumphrey JenningsStarsMarius GoringLucie MannheimPat HughesHow Lili Marlene became the signature tune for the British army in North Africa.
- DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsRed SkeltonEsther WilliamsBasil RathboneA contrived misunderstanding leads to the breakup of a songwriter and his fiancée. She returns to work as a gym teacher at an all-girls school, but a legal loophole allows the man to enroll as one of her students.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsDana AndrewsRichard ConteFarley GrangerThis is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried and convicted as war criminals.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsAnne BaxterThomas MitchellSelena RoyleThe lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression.