Direction: Vincente Minnelli

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Lana Turner · Kirk Douglas · Walter Pidgeon · Dick Powell

Synopsis An egotistical producer, Jonathan Shields (Douglas), determined to prove himself the finest filmmaker of all, gladly steps all over those who helped him when he was starting out. Told from the perspective of three victims -- an actress (Turner), a...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Fred Astaire · Cyd Charisse · Oscar Levant · Nanette Fabray

Synopsis Tony Hunter, a famous singer/dancer movie star, is feeling washed up and old hat (old top hat, tie and tails to be exact). The reporters are out for Ava Gardner, not him. But his old friends Lily and Les Martin...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Frank Sinatra · Dean Martin · Shirley MacLaine · Martha Hyer

Synopsis Dave Hirsch, a writer and army veteran, returns to 1948 Parkman, Indiana, his hometown. His prosperous brother introduces him to Gwen French, a local teacher. But the more flamboyant Ginny has followed him to Parkton, where he also meets gambler...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Kirk Douglas · Anthony Quinn · James Donald · Pamela Brown

Synopsis This filmed biography of Vincent Van Gogh was adapted by Norman Corwin from the best-selling novel by Irving Stone, which was in turn inspired by the written correspondence between Van Gogh and his brother Theo. Kirk Douglas plays the tormented...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Gene Kelly · Leslie Caron · Oscar Levant · Georges Guétary

Synopsis One of the greatest of 1950s screen musicals is a happy collaboration between the grace and athleticism of Gene Kelly and colourful palette of Vincente Minnelli. An American G.I. lingers in Paris after the war to study painting and soon...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Robert Mitchum · Eleanor Parker · George Peppard · George Hamilton

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Deborah Kerr · John Kerr · Leif Erickson · Edward Andrews

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Gregory Peck · Lauren Bacall · Dolores Gray · Tom Helmore

Synopsis On a vacation, sports journalist Mike meets designer Marilla. They fall in love and marry right away. However back at home they realize that they're living in different worlds and know nothing about each other. Also Mike feels depressed because...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Gene Kelly · Cyd Charisse · Van Johnson · Elaine Stewart

Synopsis Americans Tommy Albright and Jeff Douglas, on a hunting vacation in Scotland, discover a quaint and beautiful village, Brigadoon. Strangely, the village is not on any map, and soon Tommy and Jeff find out why: Brigadoon is an enchanted place....

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Glenn Ford · Ingrid Thulin · Charles Boyer · Paul Lukas

Synopsis Two rich families in Argentina have gathered to welcome Heinrich home after many years of medical studies in Germany. They are shocked when they hear that he has given up his studies and joined the Nazi Party. His cousin is...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Jennifer Jones · Louis Jourdan · Van Heflin · James Mason

Synopsis French author Gustave Flaubert is on trial for writing the "indecent" novel "Madame Bovary." To prove that he wrote a moral tale, Flaubert narrates the story of beautiful Emma Bovary, an adulteress who destroyed the lives of everyone she came...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Judy Garland · Margaret O'Brien · Mary Astor · Lucille Bremer

Synopsis St. Louis 1903. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. 17-year old Esther has fallen in love with the boy next door who has just moved in, John. He however, barely notices her at...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Kirk Douglas · Edward G. Robinson · Cyd Charisse · Daliah Lavi

Synopsis An actor trying to revive his career after a nervous breakdown finds the manipulative characters in his life seem to be standing in his way.

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Judy Garland · Gene Kelly · Walter Slezak · Gladys Cooper

Synopsis When Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne appeared in S. N. Behrmann's The Pirate on Broadway, there were no musical numbers whatsoever. But with Gene Kelly and Judy Garland in the leading roles of the 1948 filmization of The Pirate, the...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Leslie Caron · Maurice Chevalier · Louis Jourdan · Hermione Gingold

Synopsis Gaston (Jordan), the scion of a wealthy Parisian family finds emotional refuge from the superficial lifestyle of upper class Parisian 1900s society with the former mistress (Gingold) of his uncle (Chevalier) and her outgoing, tomboy granddaughter, Gigi (Caron). When Gaston...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Judy Garland · Robert Walker · James Gleason · Keenan Wynn

Synopsis Soldier Joe Allen is on a two-day leave in New York, and there he meets Alice. She agrees to show him the sights and they spend the day together. In this short time they find themselves falling in love with...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Spencer Tracy · Elizabeth Taylor · Joan Bennett · Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis The comic trials and tribulations that beset a family, mostly the father, prior to their daughter's wedding day. Taylor and Tracy give wonderful performances and it's easy to understand why this was remade in 1991. The colorized version doesn't add...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Richard Burton · Eva Marie Saint · Charles Bronson

Synopsis Young Danny Reynolds and his mother Laura (Elizabeth Taylor) live an idyllic life near California's Big Sur. Laura teaches Danny at home. After Danny shoots a deer, authorities take the boy away to live and study in a parochial orphanage/school....

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Robert Taylor · Robert Mitchum · Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis Young bride Ann Hamilton soon begins to suspect that her charming husband is really a psychotic who plans to murder her.

Direction Vincente Minnelli · Lemuel Ayers · Roy Del Ruth · Robert Lewis

Cast Fred Astaire · William Powell · Judy Garland · Lucille Ball

Synopsis The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.