Turner Classic Movies USA

Troubled New Zealand writer Janet Frame is portrayed as a child (Alexia Keogh), as a teen (Karen Fergusson) and as an adult (Kerry Fox).

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

A New York policeman (George Murphy) approves of his daughter's (Judy Garland) suitor; her grandfather (Charles Winninger) does not.

An Irish villager's (J. Farrell MacDonald) daughter (Marion Davies) must leave home and live with British aristocrats to inherit a fortune.

An Irish horsecar driver's daughter (June Haver) meets New York showman Tony Pastor (Gordon MacRae) and goes into vaudeville.

A boxer (James Cagney) and his policeman brother (Pat O'Brien) feud over a police captain's daughter (Olivia de Havilland).

A Brooklyn brawler (James Cagney) joins Father Duffy (Pat O'Brien) and Col. Wild Bill Donovan's (George Brent) Irish-American regiment in World War I.

Tyrone Power introduces a trio of tales of Ireland: "Majesty of the Law," "A Minute's Wait," "1921.".

An innocent Irish farm girl (Rita Tushingham) moves to Dublin and meets a divorced, middle-aged writer (Peter Finch).

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman (James Mason) wounded in a daring robbery.

An Irish-born boxer (John Wayne) returns to his homeland to reclaim his family's farm and begins a turbulent romance with a beautiful spitfire (Maureen O'Hara).

Dublin playwright Sean O'Casey (Rod Taylor) loves a librarian (Maggie Smith), sleeps with a chorus girl (Julie Christie) and meets Yeats.

An Irishman (Fred Astaire) and his daughter (Petula Clark) steal a leprechaun's (Tommy Steele) pot of gold.