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.

A teacher's (Robert Mitchum) wife (Sarah Miles) has an affair with a British soldier (Christopher Jones) in 1916 Northern Ireland.

A teacher's (Robert Mitchum) wife (Sarah Miles) has an affair with a British soldier (Christopher Jones) in 1916 Northern Ireland.

A soldier (Tom Drake) home on leave learns his sweetheart (Donna Reed) got a promotion and engaged to another man.

A poor-but-charming father (C. Aubrey Smith) and son (Robert Montgomery) try to enter high society by marrying rich English widows.

A Paris singer's (Lily Pons) press agent (Jack Oakie) arranges her Manhattan debut by way of Africa.

A critic (Pat O'Brien) goes to a Mexican resort and meets a dancer (Dolores del Río) he had given a bad review.

A lawyer (Edward Everett Horton) hires a look-alike to fool his mother-in-law while his wife (Esther Ralston) is away.

French actors stage a hoax to deflate the ego of the famed 18th-century British actor (Brian Aherne).

A riverboat pilot (Richard Dix) with a machine gun protects his passengers from bandits in war-torn Manchuria.

A social-climbing couple (Guy Kibbee, ZaSu Pitts) throw a lavish party for a stranger they persuaded to pose as their daughter.

Ballet dancer Petrov (Fred Astaire) woos a musical star (Ginger Rogers) at sea and in New York, despite rumors of their marriage.

A professor (James Stewart) marries a nightclub singer (Ginger Rogers) but hides it from his parents.

A Mississippi police chief (Carroll O'Connor) solves a murder with a detective (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) he has met before.

A Hollywood child-star has-been (Bette Davis) torments her famous sister (Joan Crawford), now in a wheelchair.

Catty Park Avenue women teach a friend (June Allyson) how to win her husband back from a sexpot (Joan Collins).

A nurse asks a bootlegger for help after uncovering her employer's plot to kill her own children for their trust fund.

A small-town actress (Susan Strasberg) meets a New York producer (Henry Fonda) and playwright, and replaces their show's moody star (Joan Greenwood).

An English drama student (Jane Wyman) and her father help a young man (Richard Todd) accused of killing an actress's (Marlene Dietrich) husband.

An actress (Jane Powell) and her mother (Ann Sothern) compete, without meaning to, for the same man (Barry Sullivan) and part in a play.

A small-town boy with big-time ideas, Merton heads to Hollywood, hoping to become a great dramatic star.

A bumpkin seeks fame and fortune in the big city under the impression he's been offered a screen test.

A director (Lowell Sherman) on a drunken slide makes a Brown Derby waitress (Constance Bennett) a star.

Supported by her mother, a New Englander (Jean Simmons) finally tells her salty father (Spencer Tracy) she wants to be an actress.

New York chorus girls (Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers) room at a theatrical boardinghouse while waiting for their big break.

An insurance man (Fred MacMurray) helps a platinum blonde (Barbara Stanwyck) kill her husband, but all does not go as planned.

A bedridden heiress (Barbara Stanwyck) phones her husband (Burt Lancaster) and overhears two men plotting a murder.

An unwed mother (Barbara Stanwyck) assumes a dead bride's identity and moves in with her rich in-laws.

A woman (Barbara Stanwyck) looks out a window and sees a man (George Sanders) kill someone; he's so tricky no one believes her.

Mysterious murders occur when students (Lindy Booth, Julian Morris) at a prep school invent a story about a serial killer.

A woman (Barbara Stanwyck) lures a fugitive (Ralph Meeker) to help her husband (Barry Sullivan), trapped under a piling at low tide.

A drunken poet (Joseph Cotten) helps a Frenchwoman foil a millionaire's (Louis Calhern) maid (Barbara Stanwyck) and butler in 1848 New York.

A drunken poet (Joseph Cotten) helps a Frenchwoman foil a millionaire's (Louis Calhern) maid (Barbara Stanwyck) and butler in 1848 New York.

A Monterey, Calif., woman (Barbara Stanwyck) marries a fisherman (Paul Douglas), then has an affair with his cynical friend (Robert Ryan).

A London artist (Humphrey Bogart) poisons his first wife with glasses of milk, then tries it with his second wife (Barbara Stanwyck).

Martha (Barbara Stanwyck) and her husband (Kirk Douglas), who saw her kill her aunt, fear a childhood friend (Van Heflin) saw her too.

A tough newswoman (Barbara Stanwyck) tries to help her detective husband's (Sterling Hayden) career by dallying with his police boss (Raymond Burr).

A friendly marshal (Richard Crenna) and a hired gun (Leonard Nimoy) hunt a post-Civil War drifter (Yul Brynner) out to rob $2 million in federal gold.

A CIA agent (Yul Brynner) is lured to the Alps and replaced in Washington by a look-alike Soviet spy.

A computer malfunction results in bloodshed when the robots at an adult fantasy park turn on their human visitors.

Influential graphic designer Joe Caroff creates iconic corporate logos, movie posters and title treatments for films.

Against a backdrop of vicious gang warfare between the New Yorker Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks, a romance develops across rival lines. 1960s update of "Romeo and Juliet", with amazing song and dance sequences.

Richard Attenborough's Oscar-winning portrait of the man whose policy of nonviolence won India's independence.

A bald surgeon (Peter Lorre) grafts a killer's hands on to the pianist husband (Colin Clive) of an actress (Frances Drake) he loves.

The masked curator (Lionel Atwill) of a wax museum turns people into statues and sees his next Marie Antoinette (Fay Wray).

March won an Oscar for his portrayal of the scientist whose experiments bring out a hideous side of his personality.

A portly lord (Billy House) sends an 18th-century London actress (Anna Lee) to a madman's (Boris Karloff) insane asylum.

An oilman's (Raymond Massey) bride (Joan Crawford) sees her ex-boyfriend (Van Heflin) romance her stepdaughter, and it drives her mad.

Edith (Bette Davis) kills Margaret, her twin, and takes her identity, fooling Edith's boyfriend (Karl Malden) but not Margaret's lover.

A Hollywood child-star has-been (Bette Davis) torments her famous sister (Joan Crawford), now in a wheelchair.

A Paris surgeon (Pierre Brasseur) tries to fix his daughter's (Edith Scob) face with skin from kidnapped women.

A missing woman (Doris Day) returns to her husband (James Garner) and his bride (Polly Bergen) after five years on an island with another man.

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 New York nightclub musician (Henry Fonda) and his wife (Vera Miles) endure an ordeal of mistaken identity.

A music professor (Ryan O'Neal) visits San Francisco with his fiancee (Madeline Kahn) and meets a kooky woman (Barbra Streisand).

A shipwrecked woman (Irene Dunne) returns to a remarried husband (Cary Grant) after seven years on an island with another man (Randolph Scott).