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James Cagney stepped into the shoes of legendary showman George M. Cohan and danced off with a Best Actor Oscar. The film chronicles Cohan's life as he reminisces about his early days in vaudeville to his success on Broadway while preparing to meet President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Rosemary De Camp, who plays George's mother, was actually 15 years younger than Cagney. Cagney played Cohan again in 1

Best Picture winner about a longshoreman and washed-up boxer, who "coulda been a contendah," struggling under the constant "pier" pressure of the organized-crime syndicate that controls the docks on which he works. The film won eight Oscars, including Actor (Marlon Brando), Supporting Actress (Eva Marie Saint) and Director (Elia Kazan). In an Oscar oddity, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden and Rod Steiger

An interview with Eva Marie Saint.

An advertising executive is mistaken for a spy, pursuing---and being pursued by---foreign agents, from New York to the top of Mount Rushmore.

About the pain and violence of drug addiction. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Don Murray, Eva Marie Saint, Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan. Mother: Henry Silva. Script by Michael Gazzo and Alfred Hayes. Based on Gazzo's Broadway play. Bernard Herrmann score.

Music-packed comedy-drama about teenage life in 1962 California.

A recent widow ignores convention and defies the expectations of her family when she falls for a handsome major while on a ski trip and becomes romantically involved with him.

Tale of a scandal-hunting columnist. Helen Twelvetrees. William: Ricardo Cortez. Mildred: Jill Esmond. Ed: Robert Armstrong. Bee: Arline Judge. Telephone Operator: ZaSu Pitts. Tony Mugatti: Sidney Toler. Directed by William A. Seiter.

A boy becomes obsessed with the idea that his unfriendly neighbor murdered the kid's beloved dog. The child sets off to find evidence, and discovers the man has an unusual past. Eventually the boy engages in an action that has dire consequences for himself and his community.

Satire and melodrama blend in this yarn about a news-hungry gossip columnist.

The flailing marriage of Victor, a playwright, and Jean, a model, is told via flashback. Their union is strained by the death of Jean's baby and the pressure of Victor's career, but the couple are bolstered when they adopt a baby.

Remake of 1932's "Grand Hotel" chronicles the hopes, fears and happiness of guests at New York's famed Waldorf-Astoria on Park Avenue.

A comedy of manners about an aristocratic British couple who insist on having their Americanized daughter make her society debut in order to land a monied husband, but the young lady is more interested in making beautiful music with a drummer. Real-life marrieds Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall play the parents.

An all-star, all-female cast is featured in an adaptation of the Clare Boothe Luce Broadway hit about a cabal of catty and chatty high-society women who chime in on the affairs of a loving wife and mother who's dealing with an adulterous husband.

A singer and a saxophonist fall in love just after World War II, but find it difficult to maintain their marriage over the years as each rises to different levels of fame and success in show business.

A successful teacher of deaf children hides a double life, as she spends her nights in bars looking for increasingly violent sexual encounters.

Misadventures of an Ohio couple in New York, coping with lost luggage, canceled reservations, con artists and thieves.

On a trip to San Francisco to compete for a music grant, a young researcher meets a zany college dropout. Their unpredictable and wacky relationship adds to the antics of the film when four identical plaid bags go missing with valuable contents in them.

After his former partner is murdered, an aging private investigator comes out of retirement to solve his last case while also trying to solve his murder. He ends up finding a new partner in his eccentric female client.

A circus owner wants to make money off a math whiz, but his daughter falls in love with him. Eventually the genius is forced into a bridge game against the world's best player, but gangsters are keeping it from being a fair match.

Poe's raven, not feeling well, goes in search of a doctor, and in a nearby book finds Dr. Jekyll. The doctor offers to transfer the bookworm's brain to the raven.

A sports short examining a class of 3- and 4-year-olds learning how to swim.

Entry in the "Traveltalk" series visits a Guatemalan city where the Maya civilization once flourished. Narrated by James A. Fitzpatrick.

A midshipman wants to romance an officer's daughter, but he is discouraged from doing so by his father and his rival suitor.

In "No. 5 Checked Out," Teresa Wright stars as a deaf woman trying to outwit bank bandits who are hiding out in a cabin at her father's out-of-the-way resort. Peter Lorre costars as one of the hoods. Directed by Ida Lupino.

Sleuth (Tom Conway) involved in a missing-jewels case. Lola: Jane Greer. Goldie: Vince Barnett. Joan: Rita Corday. Nick: Elisha Cook Jr. Directed by Ray McCarey.

Oscar-nominated short subject examining the training of naval aviators at bases in Pensacola, Fla.; and San Diego. Included: flying in formation; classroom instruction, training on flight simulators; aircraft-carrier landings. Narrated by Frank Whitbeck.

Two vaudevillian song-and-dance men circa 1906, moonlight as semiprofessional baseball players who both fall for the new female owner, while the more naive of the two falls in with a gambling crowd.

A re-creation of Charles A. Lindbergh's nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris in 1927. The film was adapted from the flier's autobiography.

When the first woman is elected to the office of President of the United States, her husband has a tough time adapting to the role of male "First Lady," especially when a Latin American dictator develops a less-than-diplomatic interest in the Leader of the Free World.

A ditzy cocktail waitress gets embroiled in Middle Eastern politics when she intervenes in an assassination attempt.