| Title
|
Director
|
Cast
|
Genre
|
Notes
|
| Calendar Girl |
Allan Dwan |
Jane Frazee, Gail Patrick |
Comedy |
Republic Pictures
|
| Captain from Castile |
Henry King |
Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero |
Historical |
20th Century Fox
|
| Carnegie Hall |
Edgar G. Ulmer |
Marsha Hunt, William Prince |
Musical |
United Artists
|
| Carnival in Costa Rica |
Gregory Ratoff |
Vera-Ellen, Dick Haymes |
|
20th Century Fox
|
| Cass Timberlane |
George Sidney |
Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner |
Drama |
MGM
|
| Cat Fishin' |
|
|
Animated |
|
| Cheyenne |
Raoul Walsh |
Jane Wyman, Dennis Morgan |
Western |
Warner Bros.
|
| Christmas Eve |
Edwin L. Marin |
George Raft, Randolph Scott, Joan Blondell |
Comedy |
United Artists
|
| Code of the West |
William A. Burke |
Steve Brodie, James Warren |
Western |
|
| Crossfire |
Edward Dmytryk |
Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan |
Film noir |
RKO; 5 Academy Award nominations
|
| Curley |
Bernard Carr |
Billy Gray |
Comedy |
|
| Daisy Kenyon |
Otto Preminger |
Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda |
Drama |
20th Century Fox
|
| Dangerous Years |
Arthur Pierson |
Billy Halop, Ann E. Todd |
Drama |
Marilyn Monroe debut
|
| Dark Passage |
Delmer Daves |
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall |
Film noir |
Warner Bros.
|
| Dead Reckoning |
John Cromwell |
Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott |
Film noir |
Columbia
|
| Deep Valley |
Jean Negulesco |
Ida Lupino, Dane Clark, Fay Bainter |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
| Desert Fury |
Lewis Allen |
Lizabeth Scott, Burt Lancaster |
Drama |
Paramount
|
| Desperate |
Anthony Mann |
Steve Brodie, Raymond Burr |
Drama |
RKO
|
| The Devil Thumbs a Ride |
Felix E. Feist |
Lawrence Tierney |
Drama |
RKO
|
| Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome |
John Rawlins |
Ralph Byrd, Anne Gwynne, Boris Karloff |
Thriller |
RKO; based on comic strip
|
| Don't Be a Sucker! |
|
|
Propaganda |
|
| A Double Life |
George Cukor |
Ronald Colman, Shelley Winters |
Drama |
Universal
|
| Down to Earth |
Alexander Hall |
Rita Hayworth, Larry Parks |
Fantasy |
Sequel to Here Comes Mr. Jordan
|
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Mouse |
|
|
Animated |
|
| Dreams That Money Can Buy |
Hans Richter |
Jack Bittner |
Experimental |
|
| Easter Yeggs |
|
|
Animated |
|
| The Egg and I |
Chester Erskine |
Fred MacMurray, Claudette Colbert |
Comedy |
Universal
|
| Escape Me Never |
Peter Godfrey |
Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
| The Exile |
Max Ophüls |
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Maria Montez, Rita Corday |
Adventure |
Universal
|
| The Fabulous Dorseys |
Alfred E. Green |
Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey |
Biopic |
|
| The Fabulous Joe |
Harve Foster |
Walter Abel, Marie Wilson |
Comedy |
United Artists
|
| The Farmer's Daughter |
H. C. Potter |
Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten |
Comedy |
RKO; Oscar for Young
|
| Fear in the Night |
Maxwell Shane |
DeForest Kelley, Paul Kelly |
Drama |
|
| Fireworks |
Kenneth Anger |
|
Experimental |
|
| For the Love of Rusty |
John Sturges |
Tom Powers, Ann Doran |
Family |
Columbia
|
| Forever Amber |
Otto Preminger |
Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, George Sanders |
Drama |
20th Century Fox; based on the novel
|
| The Foxes of Harrow |
John M. Stahl |
Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara |
Adventure |
20th Century Fox
|
| Framed |
Richard Wallace |
Glenn Ford, Janis Carter |
Suspense |
Columbia
|
| The Fugitive |
John Ford |
Henry Fonda, Dolores del Río, Pedro Armendáriz |
Drama |
RKO
|
| Fun and Fancy Free |
4 directors |
Edgar Bergen, Dinah Shore |
Animated |
Disney, RKO
|
| Gas House Kids Go West |
William Beaudine |
Emory Parnell, Vince Barnett |
Comedy |
PRC
|
| Gas House Kids in Hollywood |
Edward L. Cahn |
Carl Switzer, Benny Bartlett |
Comedy/Crime |
PRC
|
| Gentleman's Agreement |
Elia Kazan |
Gregory Peck, John Garfield, Dorothy McGuire, Celeste Holm, Jane Wyatt |
Drama |
Oscars for Kazan, Holm, Best Picture
|
| The Ghost and Mrs. Muir |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison |
Comedy |
Fox; inspired TV series
|
| Golden Earrings |
Mitchell Leisen |
Ray Milland, Marlene Dietrich |
Drama |
|
| Good News |
Charles Walters |
June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Mel Tormé |
Musical |
MGM
|
| Green Dolphin Street |
Victor Saville |
Lana Turner, Van Heflin, Donna Reed |
Drama |
MGM
|
| The Guilt of Janet Ames |
Henry Levin |
Rosalind Russell, Melvyn Douglas |
Drama |
Columbia
|
| The Guilty |
John Reinhardt |
Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Regis Toomey |
Drama |
Monogram
|
| Half-Wits Holiday |
Jules White |
The Three Stooges |
Comedy |
|
| Hi-De-Ho |
Josh Binney |
Cab Calloway, Jeni Le Gon |
Musical Drama |
|
| High Barbaree |
Jack Conway |
Van Johnson, June Allyson |
War |
MGM
|
| High Wall |
Curtis Bernhardt |
Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter |
Crime drama |
MGM
|
| Hold That Lion! |
Jules White |
The Three Stooges |
Comedy Short |
|
| Honeymoon |
William Keighley |
Shirley Temple, Franchot Tone, Guy Madison |
Melodrama |
RKO
|
| The Hucksters |
Jack Conway |
Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr |
Drama |
MGM
|
| If Winter Comes |
Victor Saville |
Walter Pidgeon, Deborah Kerr, Angela Lansbury |
Drama |
MGM
|
| I'll Be Yours |
William A. Seiter |
Deanna Durbin, Tom Drake, William Bendix, Adolphe Menjou |
Musical comedy |
Universal
|
| The Imperfect Lady |
Lewis Allen |
Ray Milland, Teresa Wright |
Drama |
Paramount
|
| The Invisible Mouse |
Hanna Barbera |
|
Animated |
|
| It Had to Be You |
Rudolph Maté |
Ginger Rogers, Cornel Wilde |
Comedy |
Columbia
|
| It Happened in Brooklyn |
Richard Whorf |
Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante |
Comedy |
MGM
|
| It Happened on 5th Avenue |
Roy Del Ruth |
Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles |
Comedy |
Allied Artists
|
| Jesse James Rides Again |
F. Brannon, T. Carr |
Clayton Moore |
Western |
Serial
|
| Johnny O'Clock |
Robert Rossen |
Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, Lee J. Cobb |
Mystery |
Columbia
|
| Keeper of the Bees |
John Sturges |
Jane Darwell |
Drama |
|
| Killer Dill |
Lewis D. Collins |
Stuart Erwin, Anne Gwynne, Mike Mazurki |
Crime comedy |
Screen Guild
|
| King-Size Canary |
|
|
Animation |
|
| Kiss of Death |
Henry Hathaway |
Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Richard Widmark |
Film noir |
20th Century Fox; 2 Oscar nominations
|
| The Lady from Shanghai |
Orson Welles |
Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles |
Film noir |
Columbia
|
| Lady in the Lake |
Robert Montgomery |
Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter |
Film noir |
MGM; based on book by Raymond Chandler
|
| The Late George Apley |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
Ronald Colman |
Comedy |
20th Century Fox
|
| Law of the Lash |
Ray Taylor |
Lash LaRue, Al St. John, Lee Roberts |
Western |
|
| Life with Father |
Michael Curtiz |
William Powell, Irene Dunne, Elizabeth Taylor |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.; based on the book
|
| A Likely Story |
H. C. Potter |
Barbara Hale, Bill Williams, Sam Levene |
Comedy |
RKO
|
| Living in a Big Way |
Gregory LaCava |
Gene Kelly, Marie McDonald, Charles Winninger |
Musical |
MGM
|
| The Long Night |
Anatole Litvak |
Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes |
Film noir |
RKO
|
| Lost Honeymoon |
Leigh Jason |
Franchot Tone, Ann Richards |
Comedy |
Eagle-Lion
|
| The Lost Moment |
Martin Gabel |
Susan Hayward, Robert Cummings |
Drama |
Universal
|
| Love from a Stranger |
Richard Whorf |
John Hodiak, Sylvia Sidney |
Drama |
Eagle-Lion
|
| Lured |
Douglas Sirk |
Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff |
Film noir |
United Artists
|
| The Macomber Affair |
Zoltan Korda |
Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, Robert Preston |
Drama |
United Artists
|
| Magic Town |
William Wellman |
James Stewart, Jane Wyman |
Drama |
RKO
|
| The Man I Love |
Raoul Walsh |
Ida Lupino, Robert Alda |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
| The Mighty McGurk |
John Waters |
Wallace Beery, Dean Stockwell |
Drama |
MGM
|
| Miracle on 34th Street |
George Seaton |
Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood |
Romantic comedy |
20th Century Fox; Oscars for Gwenn, screenplay
|
| Monsieur Verdoux |
Charles Chaplin |
Charles Chaplin, Martha Raye, William Frawley |
Comedy |
United Artists
|
| Moss Rose |
Gregory Ratoff |
Peggy Cummins, Victor Mature, Ethel Barrymore |
Thriller |
20th Century Fox
|
| Mother Wore Tights |
Walter Lang |
Betty Grable, Dan Dailey, Mona Freeman |
Musical |
20th Century Fox
|
| Motion Painting No. 1 |
|
|
Animation |
|
| Mourning Becomes Electra |
Dudley Nichols |
Rosalind Russell, Michael Redgrave |
Drama |
RKO
|
| A Mouse in the House |
|
|
Animated |
|
| My Favorite Brunette |
Elliott Nugent |
Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre |
Comedy |
Paramount
|
| My Wild Irish Rose |
David Butler |
Dennis Morgan, Arlene Dahl, Andrea King |
Musical |
Warner Bros.
|
| Nightmare Alley |
Edmond Goulding |
Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray |
Film noir |
20th Century Fox; based on the book
|
| Nora Prentiss |
Vincent Sherman |
Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Robert Alda |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
| Northwest Outpost |
Allan Dwan |
Nelson Eddy, Ilona Massey |
Musical |
|
| Out of the Blue |
Leigh Jason |
Virginia Mayo, Ann Dvorak |
Comedy |
Eagle-Lion Films
|
| Out of the Past |
Jacques Tourneur |
Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Steve Brodie |
Film noir |
RKO
|
| The Paradine Case |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Gregory Peck, Charles Laughton, Alida Valli, Ann Todd, Ethel Barrymore, Louis Jourdan |
Drama |
Selznick
|
| Part Time Pal |
|
|
Animation |
|
| The Perils of Pauline |
George Marshall |
Betty Hutton, John Lund |
Comedy |
Paramount; based on Pearl White
|
| A Pest in the House |
|
|
Animation |
|
| Pirates of Monterey |
Alfred L. Werker |
Maria Montez, Rod Cameron, Gilbert Roland |
Adventure |
Universal
|
| Possessed |
Curtis Bernhardt |
Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey |
Film noir |
Warner Bros.
|
| The Pretender |
W. Lee Wilder |
Albert Dekker, Catherine Craig |
Drama |
Republic
|
| The Private Affairs of Bel Ami |
Albert Lewin |
George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Ann Dvorak |
Drama |
United Artists
|
| Pursued |
Raoul Walsh |
Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
| Queen of the Amazons |
Edward Finney |
Patricia Morison |
Adventure |
Screen Guild
|
| Railroaded! |
Anthony Mann |
John Ireland, Hugh Beaumont |
Drama |
Eagle-Lion
|
| Ramrod |
André de Toth |
Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Donald Crisp |
Western |
United Artists
|
| The Red House |
Delmer Daves |
Edward G. Robinson |
Thriller |
United Artists
|
| Repeat Performance |
Alfred L. Werker |
Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie |
Drama |
Eagle-Lion Films
|
| Ride the Pink Horse |
Robert Montgomery |
Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix |
Film noir |
Universal
|
| Riffraff |
Ted Tetzlaff |
Pat O'Brien, Walter Slezak |
Film noir |
RKO
|
| Road to Rio |
Norman Z. McLeod |
Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour |
Comedy |
Paramount; 5th of series
|
| The Romance of Rosy Ridge |
Roy Rowland |
Van Johnson, Thomas Mitchell, Janet Leigh |
Drama |
MGM
|
| Salt Water Tabby |
|
|
Animated |
|
| Scared to Death |
Christy Cabanne |
Bela Lugosi, George Zucco |
Horror |
|
| Scent-imental Over You |
|
|
Animated |
|
| The Sea of Grass |
Elia Kazan |
Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn |
Western |
MGM
|
| The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
Norman Z. McLeod |
Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo |
Comedy |
RKO; remade in 2013
|
| Seven Were Saved |
William H. Pine |
Richard Denning, Catherine Craig |
Drama |
|
| The Shocking Miss Pilgrim |
George Seaton |
Betty Grable, Dick Haymes, Anne Revere |
Musical |
Fox
|
| The Sin of Harold Diddlebock |
Preston Sturges |
Harold Lloyd |
Comedy |
Universal/RKO
|
| Sinbad the Sailor |
Richard Wallace |
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Maureen O'Hara |
Fantasy |
RKO
|
| Sing a Song of Six Pants |
Jules White |
The Three Stooges |
Comedy Short |
|
| Slick Hare |
|
|
Animated |
|
| Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman |
Stuart Heisler |
Susan Hayward, Eddie Albert |
Drama |
Universal; 2 Oscar nominations
|
| Something in the Wind |
Irving Pichel |
Deanna Durbin, Donald O'Connor |
Musical |
Universal
|
| Son of Zorro |
|
George Turner, Peggy Stewart |
Serial |
|
| Song of Scheherazade |
Walter Reisch |
Yvonne De Carlo, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Eve Arden |
Fantasy |
Universal
|
| Song of the Thin Man |
Edward Buzzell |
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Patricia Morison |
Mystery |
last of Thin Man series
|
| Tarzan and the Huntress |
Kurt Neumann |
Johnny Weissmuller, Patricia Morison |
Adventure |
RKO
|
| T-Men |
Anthony Mann |
Dennis O'Keefe |
Crime drama |
Eagle-Lion
|
| That Hagen Girl |
Peter Godfrey |
Ronald Reagan, Shirley Temple |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
| They Won't Believe Me |
Irving Pichel |
Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer |
Drama |
RKO
|
| This Time for Keeps |
Richard Thorpe |
Esther Williams, Jimmy Durante |
Comedy |
MGM
|
| Thunderbolt! |
John Sturges, William Wyler |
James Stewart |
War documentary |
Monogram
|
| Too Many Winners |
William Beaudine |
Hugh Beaumont, Trudy Marshall |
Mystery |
|
| Trail Street |
Ray Enright |
Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan |
Western |
RKO
|
| Tubby the Tuba |
George Pal |
|
Animated |
|
| Tweetie Pie |
|
|
Animated |
Warner Bros.
|
| The Two Mrs. Carrolls |
Peter Godfrey |
Barbara Stanwyck, Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
| Unconquered |
Cecil B. DeMille |
Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva |
Adventure |
Paramount
|
| The Unfaithful |
Vincent Sherman |
Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
| The Unsuspected |
Michael Curtiz |
Claude Rains, Audrey Totter |
Drama |
Warner Bros.
|
| Variety Girl |
George Marshall |
Various artists |
Musical |
Paramount
|
| The Velvet Touch |
Jack Gage |
Rosalind Russell, Claire Trevor |
Drama |
RKO
|
| The Vigilante |
Wallace Fox |
Ralph Byrd |
Action |
Serial
|
| Violence |
Jack Bernhard |
Nancy Coleman, Michael O'Shea |
Crime |
|
| The Voice of the Turtle |
Irving Rapper |
Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker, Eve Arden |
Comedy |
Warner Bros.
|
| The Web |
Michael Gordon |
Vincent Price, Edmond O'Brien |
Drama |
Universal
|
| Welcome Stranger |
Elliott Nugent |
Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield |
Drama |
Paramount
|
| Whispering City |
Fyodor Ostep |
Paul Lukas, Helmut Dantine |
Drama |
Eagle-Lion
|
| The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap |
Charles Barton |
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello |
Comedy |
Universal
|
| The Woman on the Beach |
Jean Renoir |
Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford |
Film noir |
RKO
|
| Wyoming |
Joseph Kane |
Wild Bill Elliott, Vera Ralston |
Western |
Republic
|
