A young boy uses a peculiar and humorous standard to determine the perfect wife for his widowed father.

A librarian hears a sour note when a charming rogue convinces Iowa townspeople to start a boys marching band.

A murderous thug and his cohorts take a bank executive's wife hostage after their robbery plans go awry.

A magazine photographer's helper (Donald O'Connor) rashly promises to put a chorus girl (Debbie Reynolds) on the cover.

A singer and a lawyer (Edmund Purdom) fall for Athena (Jane Powell) and Minerva (Debbie Reynolds), two sisters out of seven named after constellations.

A Dominican nun (Debbie Reynolds) working in a Belgian slum is urged by a priest (Ricardo Montalban) to record her music.

An Irish cabby (Ernest Borgnine) in the Bronx watches his wife (Bette Davis) go overboard planning their daughter's (Debbie Reynolds) wedding.

An Internal Revenue Service agent (Tony Randall) audits an evasive farmer (Paul Douglas) and woos his elusive daughter (Debbie Reynolds).

An actress (Debbie Reynolds) flirts demurely with a swinging Manhattan bachelor (Frank Sinatra) who thinks he has it made.

A silent-film star (Gene Kelly) loves a chorus girl (Debbie Reynolds) who dubs his squeaky-voiced co-star in a 1927 Hollywood talkie.

A motley assortment of characters embarks on a chaotic and slapstick-filled race to find $350,000 in buried loot.

A Broadway producer (Zero Mostel) and his accountant (Gene Wilder) back a sure-fire flop:.

Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo stow away on a trans-Atlantic ocean liner bound for New York and try not to get caught.

A paleontologist (Cary Grant) loses a dinosaur bone to a dog whose heiress owner (Katharine Hepburn) also has a pet leopard, called Baby.

After a day of playing amateur sleuth, a movie projectionist.

Two bumbling barbers (Bud Abbott, Lou Costello) act as agents for an unknown singer and stage a phony murder to get him a coveted role.

A ballet dancer (Vivien Leigh) and a British officer (Robert Taylor) cross stars on the eve of World War I.

Two bumbling barbers (Bud Abbott, Lou Costello) act as agents for an unknown singer and stage a phony murder to get him a coveted role.

A ballet dancer (Vivien Leigh) and a British officer (Robert Taylor) cross stars on the eve of World War I.

An old-timer (Lionel Barrymore) postpones Death by trapping its messenger, Mr. Brink (Cedric Hardwicke), in an apple tree.

An old-timer (Lionel Barrymore) postpones Death by trapping its messenger, Mr. Brink (Cedric Hardwicke), in an apple tree.

Her suitor's (George Brent) Civil War death forces an unwed mother (Bette Davis) to let her married cousin (Miriam Hopkins) raise her daughter.

Her suitor's (George Brent) Civil War death forces an unwed mother (Bette Davis) to let her married cousin (Miriam Hopkins) raise her daughter.

A wretched woman (Bette Davis) runs off with her sister's (Olivia de Havilland) husband, for starters.

A wretched woman (Bette Davis) runs off with her sister's (Olivia de Havilland) husband, for starters.

A woman contemplating divorce from her husband recalls their early years together and the tragedies that ensued.

A woman contemplating divorce from her husband recalls their early years together and the tragedies that ensued.

Two best friends from girlhood clash over the years as serious writer (Bette Davis) and racy novelist (Miriam Hopkins).

Two best friends from girlhood clash over the years as serious writer (Bette Davis) and racy novelist (Miriam Hopkins).

A man (Richard Egan) and a woman's (Dorothy McGuire) Maine-coast adultery parallels his teenage daughter's (Sandra Dee) romance with her son.

A man (Richard Egan) and a woman's (Dorothy McGuire) Maine-coast adultery parallels his teenage daughter's (Sandra Dee) romance with her son.

Musical gifts shared by Father Chris Hickey and Father Paul Rouse.

Anglican nuns face a variety of pressures as they attempt to maintain a convent school and hospital in the Himalayas.

A Ukrainian bishop (Anthony Quinn) and former Siberian prisoner is sent to Rome, made cardinal and elected pope.

A Methodist minister (Fredric March) and his wife (Martha Scott) raise a family through years of challenge in small-town parishes.

Father Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) reforms a pool shark (Mickey Rooney) at his Omaha, Neb., home for wayward boys.

Father Flanagan (Spencer Tracy) reforms a pool shark (Mickey Rooney) at his Omaha, Neb., home for wayward boys.

The daughter of a Belgian surgeon enters a convent in hopes of serving God as a nursing nun in the Congo.

An heiress (Priscilla Lane) will lose her pianist boyfriend (Ronald Reagan) if she keeps her $1 million windfall.

An heiress (Lucille Ball) plans to marry a ditchdigger (James Ellison), then divorce him in Reno to marry a foreigner (Lee Bowman).

Two starving French artists (Annabella, René Lefèvre) chase a coat which holds a winning lottery ticket.

A legal secretary (Eleanor Parker) aims to marry a Los Angeles radio announcer (Fred MacMurray) who has inherited $2 million.

A bandleader's (Robert Alda) girlfriend (Joan Leslie) needs a brainy husband in order to claim her fortune.

An embezzler (Peter Ustinov) posing as a computer genius uses a conglomerate's computer to write himself big checks.

An insurance man (Dick Powell) and a chorus girl (Joan Blondell) baby a heavily insured Broadway producer (Victor Moore).

A detective (Donald Sutherland) ties a friend's disappearance to a Manhattan call girl (Jane Fonda) and a killer pervert.

A cowardly schoolmaster (Charles Laughton) finds courage to openly defy the Nazis in his European town.

A gangster (Humphrey Bogart) returns to his New York slum and teaches the Dead End Kids dirty tricks.

A deputy corrections commissioner (Humphrey Bogart) fires the warden of a reform school where bitter inmates (The Dead End Kids) study crime.

A paroled racketeer cleans up a crooked home for boys who have left reform school.

Actor Lionel Barrymore and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executive Dore Schary present clips from the studio's 1951 releases, including.

Actor Lionel Barrymore and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executive Dore Schary present clips from the studio's 1951 releases, including.

A playwright (George Brent) at work is cabin-bound with his wife (Genevieve Tobin), ex-wife (Glenda Farrell) and girlfriend.

A young woman (Loretta Young) falls in with a gang of criminals, and when they rob a wealthy socialite's house, she finds her long-lost twin sister.

The life of a well-known attorney is irrevocably changed after his first fateful encounter with a beautiful, charming woman.

A strong-willed woman (Joan Blondell) leaves her husband (Warren William), who slapped her, for the lawyer (Edward Everett Horton) responsible for their divorce.

Caught in Paris, a fashion thief (William Powell) and his helpers (Bette Davis, Frank McHugh) put on a show.

A maid (Ruth Donnelly) to the rich goes to work for a humble couple (Warren Hull, Margaret Lindsay) and guides them to success.

A 19th-century story, now updated to the 1930s, tells of an irrepressible and intelligent Englishwoman who is determined to advance her position.

Two tricky women (Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell) serve legal papers to a playboy, wrestler, racketeer and singer.

Philo Vance learns the deadly secret about a swimming pool that seems to be mysteriously claiming lives.

Perry Mason (Ricardo Cortez) explains in court what happened to a millionaire who changed his last will.

An African-jungle lord (Johnny Weissmuller) meets Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan), an English trader's (C. Aubrey Smith) daughter, and sweeps her off her feet.

An airplane crash results in a British diplomat (Ronald Colman) and other Westerners being taken to Shangri-La, the Tibetan utopia of a dying lama (Sam Jaffe).

A noble singing native (Paul Robeson) takes a white hunter (Cedric Hardwicke) into darkest Africa on a search for biblical treasure.

A noble singing native (Paul Robeson) takes a white hunter (Cedric Hardwicke) into darkest Africa on a search for biblical treasure.

British soldiers (Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Victor McLaglen) and their water carrier face Thuggee cultists at the Khyber Pass in 1890s India.

British soldiers (Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Victor McLaglen) and their water carrier face Thuggee cultists at the Khyber Pass in 1890s India.

Capt. Thorne Sherman and his girlfriend run from a mad scientist's shrews, which are the size of dogs.

Capt. Thorne Sherman and his girlfriend run from a mad scientist's shrews, which are the size of dogs.

Traders (Harry Carey, Duncan Renaldo), their African bearer and a white tribal queen (Edwina Booth) try to get out of the jungle alive.

Traders (Harry Carey, Duncan Renaldo), their African bearer and a white tribal queen (Edwina Booth) try to get out of the jungle alive.

Traders (Harry Carey, Duncan Renaldo), their African bearer and a white tribal queen (Edwina Booth) try to get out of the jungle alive.

Alice wins a free trip to Hollywood and dreams about her arrival.

Rejected by the other forest animals, a sad skunk bemoans his friendless life until he meets a rabbit with a congested nose.

The owners of the Loon Bay Lodge in St. Stephen, New Brunswick, take a trip down the St. Croix River.

The mayor goes to a train station to meet an opera singer.

An agent (Tim Holt) goes undercover as an outlaw and almost gets lynched.

An agent (Tim Holt) goes undercover as an outlaw and almost gets lynched.

Members of a gambling ring try to stop.

Members of a gambling ring try to stop.

Bluto tries to sabotage a performance of.

Bluto tries to sabotage a performance of.

The London sleuth (Ray Milland) and his sidekick, Algy, catch crooks for a Scotland Yard inspector (Sir Guy Standing).

A resort owner schemes to marry his daughter to a millionaire.

A burlesque queen (Lucille Ball) competes with an aspiring ballerina (Maureen O'Hara) for a divorced playboy (Louis Hayward).

A boy (Jimmy Hunt) tells a psychologist (Helena Carter) and an astronomer (Arthur Franz) about a flying saucer and his parents' strange behavior.

H.G. Wells' time traveler journeys through time, experiencing several civilizations. Oscar-winning special effects.

The Great Leslie (Tony Curtis) and sinister professor Fate (Jack Lemmon) enter their wacky cars in a 1908 race from New York to Paris.

In turn-of-the-century Australia, three young schoolgirls wander away from a school picnic and become lost in the bush.

An Australian lawyer (Richard Chamberlain) defends an Aboriginal Australian accused of a mystical murder.

Hit men board a train to kill a racketeer's widow (Marie Windsor) escorted by a Los Angeles detective (Charles McGraw).

Perseus (Harry Hamlin), the half-mortal son of Zeus (Laurence Olivier), fights meddling gods and mythical monsters for beautiful Andromeda (Judi Bowker).

An auto tycoon (Laurence Olivier) spites his corporate heir (Robert Duvall) by having a test driver (Tommy Lee Jones) build a bold new car.

An auto tycoon (Laurence Olivier) spites his corporate heir (Robert Duvall) by having a test driver (Tommy Lee Jones) build a bold new car.

A con-man war hero (John Garfield) falls in love with a young California widow (Geraldine Fitzgerald) he planned to fleece.

A ship sails on with a cynical newsman (John Garfield), a suicidal couple (Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker) and others who are dead but don't know it.

Hit men board a train to kill a racketeer's widow (Marie Windsor) escorted by a Los Angeles detective (Charles McGraw).

The morning after a London barrister (Laurence Olivier) lets a mystery woman (Merle Oberon) stay in his suite, a friend (Ralph Richardson) files for divorce.

Catty New York socialites gossip about a friend (Norma Shearer) and her husband's girlfriend (Joan Crawford).

An heir (Louis Jourdan) finds that he wants to marry the teen (Leslie Caron) groomed to be his mistress in Gay '90s Paris.

To evade gangsters, two men (Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon) don skirts and makeup and join an all-girl band with a sizzling singer (Marilyn Monroe).

A silent-film comedian (Dick Van Dyke) drinks, cheats on his wife (Michele Lee), bullies his buddy (Mickey Rooney) and makes a brief TV comeback.

A gumshoe (Steve Martin) hunts a Nazi (Carl Reiner) for a svelte client (Rachel Ward) and meets rough characters clipped from 1940s films.

Tom Kelly, a small-town baseball pitcher, is sent to a minor-league team in Florida, and fails to make the team.

A French singer (Corinne Marchand) shops, cries, sings and visits friends while awaiting the results of cancer tests.

A French carpenter (Jean-Claude Drouot) with a wife (Claire Drouot) and children adds a lover (Marie-France Boyer), to music of Mozart.

A talented tap dancer uses his craps skills to win ownership of a musical show to make himself the star.

A Left Bank poet (Jean Marais) loves a princess (María Casares) who rides with motorcycle messengers of death.

The MGM Symphony Orchestra performs the.

A roguish poet is given the run of the scheming Wazir's harem while pretending to help him usurp the young caliph.

Long-nosed Cyrano (Jose Ferrer) loves fair Roxane (Mala Powers) but woos her with verse for a tongue-tied friend (William Prince).

Victorian poet Robert Browning (Bill Travers) courts invalid poet Elizabeth Barrett (Jennifer Jones) despite her stern father (John Gielgud).

The life and career of photographer, writer, director and composer Gordon Parks.

Milquetoast greeting card writer Erwin Trowbridge (Frank McHugh) gets into a fight with his wife, Audrey (Carol Hughes), and wanders into a bar, where he meets three gamblers who appreciate his knack for picking winning horses.

A framed private eye (James Stewart) uses disguises and kidnaps a poet (Claudette Colbert) while trying to find a killer.

Frustrated poet Samson (Sean Connery), who finds societal conventions maddening, lives in New York with Rhoda (Joanne Woodward), sees a psychiatrist and fights writer's block.

A crime writer (Ernest Truex) impresses a speakeasy owner and his goons with the plot for a perfect murder, then must prevent it.

A radio-show sleuth (Red Skelton) and his bride (Ann Rutherford) help her sorority sister solve a Georgia murder mystery.

An amateur criminologist finds himself in hot water with the police, a murderer and the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Maisie (Ann Sothern) falls on hard times and works at several odd jobs before she meets aspiring comedian Hap (Red Skelton).

Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's (Ann Sothern) nightclub in the Canal Zone.

Instead of relaxing at a mountain resort a secretary (Ginger Rogers) falls in love with a stranger (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.).

An ice skater sues Kildare (Lew Ayres) for malpractice after his roadside first aid leaves her paralyzed.

Dr. Gillespie (Lionel Barrymore) snaps Kildare (Lew Ayres) back to reality after his bride, nurse Lamont (Laraine Day), is hit by a truck.

A young woman (Kim Hunter) seeks her sister (Jean Brooks) and finds Greenwich Village satanists and Dante's Restaurant.

A New York architect (Kent Smith) marries a Serbian artist (Simone Simon) who turns into a black panther when aroused.

A Greek general (Boris Karloff) in the 1912 Balkans finds his wife's grave robbed and fights a plague.

A lonely child (Ann Carter) lives in a dreamworld with her father's (Kent Smith) dead first wife (Simone Simon) as a playmate.

A carriage cabby (Boris Karloff) sells cadavers to a medical-school doctor (Henry Daniell) in 19th-century Edinburgh.

Nurse Betsey Connell (Frances Dee) is hired to care for Jessica, a woman who suffers from a bizarre condition. When she falls for Jessica's husband, Betsey is drawn into the dark world of voodoo while trying to cure her.

Shipped from mysterious Skull Island for display in the United States, a gigantic ape escapes from his bonds and carries a beautiful blonde (Fay Wray) to the top of the Empire State Building.

No one believes a third mate (Russell Wade) complaining of sadistic treatment by a psychotic captain (Richard Dix).

The organizers of a brilliantly conceived racetrack heist find their perfect crime beginning to unravel.

A drugstore manager (Richard Basehart) creates an alter ego to perform the perfect murder of his wife's (Audrey Totter) lover.

A dancer (Evelyn Keyes), a casino gambler (Dick Powell) and a detective (Lee J. Cobb) want to know who has killed a policeman and a hatchecker.

A stockbroker (Robert Young) tells the court how his rich wife and one of two girlfriends (Susan Hayward, Jane Greer) died.

Two small-time crooks (Robert Duvall, Joe Don Baker) and one's girlfriend (Karen Black) get even for a murder by robbing mob operations.

An overview of MGM releases in the first forty years of the studio.

A San Francisco librarian (Greer Garson) falls for a roguish seaman (Clark Gable), who loves her and leaves her pregnant.

After a laboratory courtship, the Polish scientist (Greer Garson) and her French husband (Walter Pidgeon) discover radium in 1898.

An amnesiac World War I British veteran (Ronald Colman) marries a chorus girl (Greer Garson), then forgets her.

The matriarch (Greer Garson) of a family facing ruin recalls how she and her husband (Walter Pidgeon) built an American empire.

William Wyler's Oscar-winning classic about the tensions faced by a family of hard-working Brits in war-torn England.

The arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet family, with five eligible daughters.

A young woman charms her bearded roommate and a merchant's daughter while posing as a Talmudic schoolboy in circa-1900 Poland.

A poor Jewish milkman (Topol) and his wife (Norma Crane) try to marry off their five daughters in czarist Russia.

Two boys (Robby Benson, Barry Miller) become friends in 1940s Brooklyn despite their fathers: a Zionist professor and a Hasidic rabbi (Rod Steiger).

A man falls in love with a girl in a neighboring village, unaware they were betrothed to each other before their births.