Gertrude Michael

Academy Award-winner Joan Crawford ("Mildred Pierce," "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?") stars as a dancer in a traveling circus. Stranded in a corrupt Southern town, she becomes involved with two men, a weakling who betrays her and a corrupt political boss. She is eventually framed for murder by a crooked sheriff, played by Oscar-nominee Sydney Greenstreet ("Casablanca," "The Maltese Falcon"). Co-starring Zachary Scott ("Cass Timberlane") and David Brian ("How the West Was Won"). Directed by Academy Award-winner Michael Curtiz ("Casablanca," "Yankee Doodle Dandy") and produced by Oscar-winner Jerry Wald ("Mildred Pierce," "Peyton Place"). Spawned a TV movie and a CBS series.

A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison. Eleanor Parker received an Oscar nomination for her role, one of many fine performances elicited by noted director John Cromwell ("Abe Lincoln in Illinois," "The Enchanted Cottage"). Co-starring Agnes Moorehead ("Citizen Kane," TV's "Bewitched").

Based on a J.M. Barrie play, this genial comedy follows physician Robert Grey (John Lund) and his wife, Alice (Joan Fontaine), as they return to New York City after a long absence and are reunited with their children, Amy (Mona Freeman) and Cosmo (David Stollery). But the reunion goes hilariously awry when Amy becomes convinced that her mother is having an affair with another doctor (Peter Hansen) and schemes to protect Alice's virtue.

Former newspaperman Pete Martin (Paul Kelly), now with military intelligence, goes undercover to investigate women who have been committing fraud by entering into multiple marriages with U.S. military personnel in order to claim their spousal pay allotments. Pete discovers that a racketeering outfit is running the scam, with chic ringleader Sheila Seymour (Kay Francis) attempting to prevent her daughter, Connie (Teala Loring), from participating.