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51. Let's Face It (1943)

Approved | 76 min | Musical, Romance

A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancée, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to get married but don't have enough money. Three customers of the fat farm scheme to get ... See full summary »

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, Zasu Pitts, Phyllis Povah

Votes: 203

52. Badman's Territory (1946)

Passed | 97 min | Western

Sheriff Mark Rowley and his brother John find themselves in an annexed area of Indian Territory which is home to notorious outlaws like Jesse James and Sam Bass.

Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Randolph Scott, Ann Richards, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Ray Collins

Votes: 860 | Gross: $4.00M

53. Captain Caution (1940)

Passed | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

When her father dies, a young woman helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Victor Mature, Louise Platt, Leo Carrillo, Bruce Cabot

Votes: 354

54. Bring on the Girls (1945)

Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Musical

A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, Eddie Bracken, Marjorie Reynolds

Votes: 162

55. A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941)

Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Romance

Stephen is a shy, quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the opera where she had his seats, and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee... See full summary »

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: George Murphy, Lucille Ball, Edmond O'Brien, Henry Travers

Votes: 532

56. King of Burlesque (1936)

Passed | 90 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Former burlesque producer moves into legitimate theatre and does well until he marries a socialite. After his divorce his former top singer returns from London to help out.

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Warner Baxter, Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, Mona Barrie

Votes: 231

57. His Butler's Sister (1943)

Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Music

A young girl visits New York for two reasons: to see her half-brother, and to try to start a musical career.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Pat O'Brien, Akim Tamiroff

Votes: 559

58. They All Kissed the Bride (1942)

Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Romance

Divine Crawford who gives all - in this really funny comedy , she donated all her salary from this movie to the Red Cross after Carole Lombard's plane crashed .

Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Roland Young, Billie Burke

Votes: 787

59. It Had to Happen (1936)

Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama

A poor boy rises to power in politics. When the banker husband of his secret love takes money and flees the country, he replaces the lost amount and becomes implicated in the crime.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: George Raft, Rosalind Russell, Leo Carrillo, Arline Judge

Votes: 149

60. Stage Struck (1936)

Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Broadway dance director George Randall (Dick Powell) is stuck with staging a Broadway show starring Peggy Revere (Joan Blondell), a wealthy but untalented performer who is starring only ... See full summary »

Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Warren William, Frank McHugh

Votes: 366

61. Can't Help Singing (1944)

Passed | 90 min | Musical, Romance, Western

A senator's daughter (who can't help singing) follows her boyfriend West in the days of the California gold rush.

Director: Frank Ryan | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Robert Paige, Akim Tamiroff, David Bruce

Votes: 651

62. Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933)

90 min | Drama, Musical

Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it ... See full summary »

Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Constance Cummings, Russ Columbo, Paul Kelly, Blossom Seeley

Votes: 243

63. Doubting Thomas (1935)

Approved | 73 min | Comedy

A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Will Rogers, Billie Burke, Alison Skipworth, Sterling Holloway

Votes: 208

64. Bedtime Story (1941)

Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Romance

A playwright attempts to stop his wife from retiring so she can star in his next play.

Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Fredric March, Loretta Young, Robert Benchley, Allyn Joslyn

Votes: 715

65. The Wild Man of Borneo (1941)

Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Romance

In 1902, medicine show con man Dan Thompson settles down with the daughter he hardly knows in a New York theatrical boarding house full of eccentric characters. Forced to take a job in an ... See full summary »

Director: Robert B. Sinclair | Stars: Frank Morgan, Mary Howard, Billie Burke, Donald Meek

Votes: 200

66. Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1949)

93 min | Biography, Musical

In the early 1900s, song plugger Larry Kelly chances to meet Alfred Breitenbach, poor opera composer...and his lovely daughter Doris, who falls for Larry. To improve their acquaintance, ... See full summary »

Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Mark Stevens, June Haver, S.Z. Sakall, Charlotte Greenwood

Votes: 139

67. Lady Scarface (1941)

Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Lieutenant Bill Mason (Dennis O'Keefe) pursues a Chicago gang to New York City, unaware that its scar-cheeked leader, Slade (Dame Judith Anderson), is a woman.

Director: Frank Woodruff | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Judith Anderson, Frances E. Neal, Mildred Coles

Votes: 310

68. Show Business (1944)

Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A song-and-dance man and his comic partner undergo romantic ups and downs when they team up with a female duo and transition from burlesque to vaudeville.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Eddie Cantor, George Murphy, Joan Davis, Nancy Kelly

Votes: 253

69. Here Comes Cookie (1935)

Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Alarmed that his younger daughter is about to marry a gold-digger, a millionaire turns over the fortune to her ditsy older sister for safe-keeping to his ultimate regret, protection.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: George Burns, Gracie Allen, George Barbier, Betty Furness

Votes: 178

70. Between Us Girls (1942)

Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Romance

A young actress tries to help her mother's romance by deception, and winds up in some hilarious escapades before learning her lesson.

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Diana Barrymore, Robert Cummings, Kay Francis, John Boles

Votes: 110

71. Watch the Birdie (1950)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

A cameraman helps an heiress to get rid of her financial adviser, who wants to get her money.

Director: Jack Donohue | Stars: Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl, Ann Miller, Leon Ames

Votes: 421

72. Oklahoma Annie (1952)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Western

A storekeeper gets involved in cleaning up corruption in her town, and also hopes to attract the attention of the handsome new sheriff.

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Judy Canova, John Russell, Grant Withers, Roy Barcroft

Votes: 165

73. It's a Great Life (1943)

Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Family

Dagwood buys a horse when he is supposed to be buying a house.

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Hugh Herbert

Votes: 204

74. Night Club Girl (1945)

Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Two show-business wannabees get their big chance to show off their big-time act and talents in a nightclub,and bomb. Othet acts come on---endlessly---and do well, but the kids will be back.

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Vivian Austin, Edward Norris, Maxie Rosenbloom, Minna Gombell

Votes: 18

75. San Fernando Valley (1944)

Passed | 74 min | Drama, Music, Western

A ranch owner fires his ranch hands and brings in women to replace them. The owner's daughter wants the male hands back and comes up with a plan to do it.

Director: John English | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, Dale Evans, Jean Porter

Votes: 122

76. My Wild Irish Rose (1947)

Approved | 101 min | Biography, Musical

The life of Irish tenor Chauncey Olcott is chronicled from his childhood to his days as the toast of New York. In between, his rise to the top is complicated by romances with two women: his... See full summary »

Director: David Butler | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Andrea King, Arlene Dahl, Alan Hale

Votes: 435

77. What a Life (1939)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Drama

In the first Henry Aldrich film, Henry (Jackie Cooper) is falsely accused of making trouble at school. He must clear himself.

Director: Theodore Reed | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Betty Field, John Howard, Janice Logan

Votes: 105

78. Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)

Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Manicurists Sally, Irene, and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. After Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Alice Faye, Tony Martin, Fred Allen, Jimmy Durante

Votes: 133

79. Music Is Magic (1935)

Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Aging star (Daniels) finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus (Faye).

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Alice Faye, Ray Walker, Bebe Daniels, Frank Mitchell

Votes: 142

80. Obliging Young Lady (1942)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Romance

Linda Norton is instructed by her employer attorney to take young Bridget Potter, whose wealthy parents are engaged in a divorce suit, to an isolated country resort, to shelter the girl from newspaper reporters and publicity.

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Joan Carroll, Edmond O'Brien, Ruth Warrick, Eve Arden

Votes: 268

81. Swing Fever (1943)

Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Lowell Blackford (Kay Kyser) is blessed with a gift of music,but also cursed with a hereditary "evil eye" which hypnotizes people,and he is virtually a recluse. He goes in search of a ... See full summary »

Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Kay Kyser, Marilyn Maxwell, William Gargan, Nat Pendleton

Votes: 236

82. Five of a Kind (1938)

Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

At age four-and-a-half the Dionne quintuplets star in their third movie - singing, dancing, playing with puppies - and being charming.

Director: Herbert I. Leeds | Stars: The Dionne Quintuplets, Yvonne Dionne, Cecile Dionne, Marie Dionne

Votes: 133

83. Sis Hopkins (1941)

Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Romance

A young girl from the "sticks" comes to the city to live with her wealthy relatives. At first she is the objection of derision and made fun of because of her unsophisticated nature, but it ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Judy Canova, Bob Crosby, Charles Butterworth, Jerry Colonna

Votes: 160

84. Don't Fence Me In (1945)

Approved | 71 min | Drama, Music, Western

Wildcat Kelly has been dead and buried for years. Or has he? Dale is a reporter for an Eastern magazine who comes West to find out the true story of Kelly, of whom Gabby seems to have mysterious knowledge.

Director: John English | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Dale Evans

Votes: 270

85. World Premiere (1941)

Approved | 71 min | Comedy

A producer devises an elaborate gala premiere for his latest anti-Nazi propaganda epic.

Directors: Ted Tetzlaff, Otis Garrett | Stars: John Barrymore, Frances Farmer, Eugene Pallette, Virginia Dale

Votes: 99

86. Romance on the Run (1938)

68 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A man has the knack for finding stolen items. and then returns them to the insurance company. Finds some fake jewels and turns them in. Antics ensue.

Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Donald Woods, Patricia Ellis, Grace Bradley, Edward Brophy

Votes: 137

87. Down Mexico Way (1941)

Passed | 77 min | Drama, Music, Western

After the bad guys swindle the good folk of Sage City, Gene and Frog chase them to Mexico, where they are trying to rob a rich Mexican ranchero.

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Fay McKenzie, Harold Huber

Votes: 152

88. A Wonderful Life (1950)

Approved | 43 min | Short, Biography, Drama

Sponsored by The Protestant Film Commission, this religiously-affiliated tale centers around citizen Henry Wood (played by Oscar winner James Dunn from "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"), who ... See full summary »

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: James Dunn, Allene Roberts, Isabel Withers, Arthur Shields

Votes: 38

89. Hoppy's Holiday (1947)

Approved | 60 min | Western

Hoppy, California and Lucky are on vacation, but not for long. They come across bank robbers (who drive automobiles, something new). Nevertheless, the Bar 20 guys bring the bad guys to justice.

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Andrew Tombes

Votes: 155

90. Boy Trouble (1939)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

Shopkeeper Homer Fitch (Ruggles) hates the changes in his household when his wife adopts two orphan boys but realizes how much he loves the boys when they are struck with scarlet fever.

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, Donald O'Connor, Joyce Mathews

Votes: 76

91. Village Barn Dance (1940)

Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Dan Martin, an unemployed college graduate, drifts into the town of Lyndale, only to learn that the town and everything in it are dominated by Minerva Withers, a tightfisted, old skinflint ... See full synopsis »

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Richard Cromwell, Doris Day, George Barbier, Esther Dale

92. A Close Call for Ellery Queen (1942)

Passed | 67 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Two mysterious seamen come from Alan Rogers' past to blackmail him as he seeks to locate his missing daughters. Ellery Queen is called in by Stewart Cole, Rogers' secretary. Queen goes to ... See full summary »

Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: William Gargan, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin, Ralph Morgan

Votes: 145

93. Wolf of New York (1940)

Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama

A district attorney tackles the "Wolf of New York" who is the mastermind behind a multitude of murders and robberies plaguing the city.

Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Rose Hobart, James Stephenson, Jerome Cowan

Votes: 69

94. One Wild Night (1938)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Crime

When four men disappear after withdrawing large sums from the same bank, crime student and son of the police chief (Baldwin) and newspaper reporter (Lang) try to uncover a possible extortion ring.

Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: June Lang, Dick Baldwin, Lyle Talbot, J. Edward Bromberg

Votes: 55

95. Riding High (1943)

Passed | 88 min | Comedy

In order to help her father get his silver mine running, a burlesque queen returns home to Arizona and gets a job as an enterainer at a dude ranch and runs into a romantic mining engineer and a counterfeiter.

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Dick Powell, Victor Moore, Gil Lamb

Votes: 143

96. My Kingdom for a Cook (1943)

Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Romance

Rudyard Morley, an eccentric ambassador from the Court of Saint James, is on a goodwill lecture tour of the United States. His English gourmet cook is unable to accompany him, and this ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Charles Coburn, Marguerite Chapman, Bill Carter, Isobel Elsom

Votes: 121

97. Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939)

Passed | 59 min | Mystery

Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson, Henry Hull, Stanley Ridges

Votes: 517

98. Battle of Broadway (1938)

Approved | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Two American Legionnaires on convention in New York share adventures and rivalries in an around show biz.

Directors: George Marshall, Allan Dwan | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Gypsy Rose Lee, Raymond Walburn

Votes: 78

99. Belle Le Grand (1951)

Passed | 90 min | Drama, Western

After serving a prison sentence in 1850, a New Orleans woman becomes a rich gambler, opens a casino on the Barbary Coast, gets romantically involved with Nevada mine owners and watches over the interests of her little sister.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Vera Ralston, John Carroll, William Ching, Hope Emerson

Votes: 199

100. Meet the Boy Friend (1937)

Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A heartthrob singer, Tony Paige, also known as "America's Boyfriend" decides to wed a Swedish actress.

Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Robert Paige, Carol Hughes, Warren Hymer, Pert Kelton

Votes: 132