William Frawley

The comedic trials and tribulations of vaudeville performers. / Academy Award-nominated musical drama.

James Cagney is compelling as a self-involved musician who makes it to the top.

Long before John Goodman became the "The Babe," William Bendix ("The Life of Riley")portrayed America's most beloved baseball hero, Babe Ruth. This emotion-charged version offers a close-up look at the legend of Babe Ruth in all its glory.

Oscar-winner Mickey Rooney ("National Velvet," "Babes in Arms") stars in Mark Twain's classic adventure story about a young troublemaker who helps a runaway slave escape to the North.

A private detective is falsely accused of murder by his secretary who is protecting the real culprit.

In his third and final Western, Fritz Lang unsaddles the genre to create a tempestuous cult favorite. Critics have likened the film and its theme of a man twisted by vengeance to a Lang film of a wholly different genre: film noir's The Big Heat.

Baseball rookie Frank X. Farrell is a phenom, a kid who can hurl the ol' horsehide and swing the lumber so well he may lead Chicago's beloved Cubbies to a pennant. Joe E. Brown brings a whirlybird wind-up and a love for the game to this comic tale.

Betsy Drake and Miracle on 34th Street Academy Award winner Edmund Gwenn are Patsy and Cyrus and Dennis Morgan and Zachary Scott are the smitten ad execs in a comedy that celebrates love, marriage and motherhood. Just not in that order.