List of the best Marietta Canty movies: Father's Little Dividend(1951), The Magnificent Dope(1942), The Spoilers(1942), The Toast of New Orleans(1950), A Streetcar Named Desire(1951), Rebel Without a Cause(1955), My Foolish Heart(1949), Lady in the Dark(1944), Father of the Bride(1950), Dear Wife(1949), The Bad and the Beautiful(1952), The Sea of Grass(1947) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1951
82 Minutes
Delilah (Banks' maid)
Spencer Tracy Joan Bennett Elizabeth Taylor Don Taylor Billie Burke Moroni Olsen Richard Rober Marietta Canty Russ Tamblyn Tom Irish Hayden Rorke
father mother daughter son-in-law mother-in-law father-in-law amusing endearing touching united states household parenthood love family old age love growing up 1950s
The father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, along with the financial and organizational trouble of arranging the wedding.
Comedy
USA
1942
83 Minutes
Jennie
Henry Fonda Lynn Bari Don Ameche Edward Everett Horton George Barbier Frank Orth Roseanne Murray Marietta Canty Hal K. Dawson Josephine Whittell Arthur Loft
young man love interest motivational speaker press agent insurance executive reporter lighthearted airy new york city office ambition love triangle contest culture clash deception transformation rise love 1940s
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is... See full summary »
Western
USA
1942
87 Minutes
Marlene Dietrich Randolph Scott John Wayne Margaret Lindsay Harry Carey Richard Barthelmess George Cleveland Samuel S. Hinds Russell Simpson William Farnum Marietta Canty
miner saloon girl commissioner judge love interest politician spirited thrilling melodramatic alaska mine saloon mining gold rush political corruption love triangle theft court battles love rivalry
In Nome, Alaska, miner Roy Glennister and his partner Dextry, financed by saloon entertainer Cherry Malotte, fight to save their gold claim from crooked commissioner Alexander McNamara.
Musical, Romance
USA
1950
97 Minutes
Kathryn Grayson Mario Lanza David Niven Rita Moreno J. Carrol Naish James Mitchell Richard Hageman Clinton Sundberg Sig Arno Romo Vincent Marietta Canty
Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent lures him away to New Orleans to teach him to sing opera, but comes to... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1951
122 Minutes
Marlon Brando Vivien Leigh Kim Hunter Karl Malden Rudy Bond Nick Dennis Peg Hillias Wright King Richard Garrick Mickey Kuhn Charles Wagenheim
sister husband wife emotional tense sultry new orleans city apartment abuse disillusionment family marriage mental illness fall rivalry 1950s
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
Drama
USA
1955
111 Minutes
James Dean Natalie Wood Sal Mineo Jim Backus Ann Doran Corey Allen William Hopper Rochelle Hudson Virginia Brissac Nick Adams Jack Simmons
teenager girlfriend friend rival mother father dark emotional los angeles police station household abandoned building observatory teenage rebellion teen angst generation gap alienation family dysfunction accidental death growing up
A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
Drama
USA
1949
98 Minutes
Dana Andrews Susan Hayward Kent Smith Lois Wheeler Jessie Royce Landis Robert Keith Gigi Perreau Karin Booth Todd Karns Philip Pine Martha Mears
old friend wife alcoholic daughter old flame mother bleak melodramatic brooding new york city party house connecticut first love divorce world war ii loveless marriage mother/daughter relationship friendship sacrifice
After being visited by an old friend, a woman recalls her true love, the man she met and lost years ago.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1944
100 Minutes
Ginger Rogers Ray Milland Jon Hall Warner Baxter Barry Sullivan Mischa Auer Mary Philips Phyllis Brooks Edward Fielding Don Loper Mary Parker
editor bachelor psychiatrist friend fascinating emotional spectacular psychiatrist's office newsroom apartment psychiatry memory daydreaming advice romance fashion adventure love transformation 1940s
Liza Elliott, "Allure" magazines editor-in-chief, suffers from headaches and continuous daydreams and undergoes psychoanalysis to determine why.
Comedy
USA
1950
93 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Elizabeth Taylor Joan Bennett Don Taylor Billie Burke Leo G. Carroll Moroni Olsen Melville Cooper Taylor Holmes Paul Harvey Frank Orth
father bride daughter mother groom amusing playful endearing america household church wedding marriage family aging parenthood love growing up 1950s
The father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, along with the financial and organizational trouble of arranging the wedding.
Comedy
USA
1949
88 Minutes
William Holden Joan Caulfield Edward Arnold Billy De Wolfe Mona Freeman Arleen Whelan Mary Philips Harry von Zell Raymond Roe Elisabeth Fraser Bill Murphy
Thanks to political activist teen Miriam, her brother-in-law and father find themselves rival candidates for state senator.
Drama
USA
1952
118 Minutes
Lana Turner Kirk Douglas Walter Pidgeon Dick Powell Barry Sullivan Gloria Grahame Gilbert Roland Leo G. Carroll Vanessa Brown Paul Stewart Sammy White
movie star writer director producer brooding cool spirited tense engaging hollywood, calif. manipulation cheating hollywood ambition betrayal underdog fall rise wretched excess 1950s
An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success.
Western
USA
1947
122 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn Melvyn Douglas Robert Walker Phyllis Thaxter Edgar Buchanan Harry Carey Ruth Nelson Wm. "Bill" Phillips Robert Armstrong James Bell
rancher wife lawyer homesteader melodramatic fiery new mexico territory colorado cattle marital problems infidelity forbidden love sacrifice 1860s
On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.