Irving Rapper

Now, Voyager -- Bette Davis magically plays Charlotte Vale, a spinster who defies her domineering mother (fellow Oscar nominee Gladys Cooper) to discover love, heartbreak and eventual contentment.

Trace the chaotic life of the world's first-ever transsexual with this biopic, which profiles George Jorgensen's (John Hansen) experiences as a woman trapped in a man's body, including his military service, photography work and revolutionary sex-change operation. Following this pioneering procedure, George takes on the name Christine, recuperates with help from a loving aunt (Joan Tompkins) and shuns the media spotlight.

Soldier Paul Quentin (Douglas Purdum) makes a morbid pledge to his dying buddy, Adrian Carmichael (Donald Murphy), during the Korean War, when he agrees to kill Carmichael's young children to avenge the infidelity of his wife, Alice (Ida Lupino). Returning to the States, Quentin seeks out the family and is warmly embraced by them. His attachment to the children soon weakens his resolve to follow through on his deadly promise.

When she agrees to appear in a play by up-and-coming playwright Stanley Krown (William Holden), aging Broadway star Beatrice Page (Ginger Rogers) cannot believe that she's too old to be cast in the starring role -- that of a teenage girl. Now Beatrice's delusion sparks a comic fracas between her producer ex-husband, the stubborn writer and an ambitious young starlet (Pat Crowley) who wants the role for herself. Irving Rapper directs this comedy.

Bette Davis, Claude Rains and Paul Henreid star in this romantic mystery about a pianist who will stop at nothing to protect her refugee husband from her rich and powerful ex-lover.

Rhapsody In Blue

Rhapsody In Blue

Robert Alda plays the talented composer, George Gershwin, in this moving tribute to one of America's premier musical artists.

He was a riverboat pilot, reporter, penniless prospector, Civil War dropout, would-be entrepreneur, loving family man, world traveler, pomposity burster and raconteur. It turns out the man who created adventures for Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and a Connecticut Yankee led a mighty adventurous life himself.

A tender love story, a taut psychological drama, an inspiring tale of physical and spiritual transformation. Bette Davis plays Charlotte Vale, a spinster who defies her domineering mother to discover love, heartbreak and eventual contentment.