List of the best Rita Johnson movies: Edison, the Man(1940), Nick Carter, Master Detective(1939), London by Night(1937), The Major and the Minor(1942), My Friend Flicka(1943), Thunderhead: Son of Flicka(1945), Family Honeymoon(1948), Congo Maisie(1940), Here Comes Mr. Jordan(1941), An Innocent Affair(1948), They Won't Believe Me(1947), The Big Clock(1948) ... ...
7.1/10
Biography
USA
1940
107 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Rita Johnson Lynne Overman Charles Coburn Gene Lockhart Henry Travers Felix Bressart
inventor businessperson friend wife creative fiery rousing new york city new jersey laboratory inventions money experiments discovery growing up quest 1930s
82 year old inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison is honored in 1929 and he reflects back on his sixty year career of scientific achievement.
6.2/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1939
60 Minutes
Walter Pidgeon Rita Johnson Henry Hull Stanley Ridges Donald Meek Addison Richards Henry Victor Milburn Stone Martin Kosleck Frank Faylen Sterling Holloway
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
6.1/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1937
70 Minutes
George Murphy Rita Johnson Virginia Field Leo G. Carroll George Zucco Montagu Love Eddie Quillan Leonard Mudie J.M. Kerrigan Neil Fitzgerald Harry Stubbs
reporter socialite inspector murderer secretary dog fascinating airy suspenseful london pub house shop murder investigation missing persons switched identities unusual romance ransom human-animal friendship mystery
A newspaperman, his canine companion, and an adventurous socialite investigate an umbrella-wielding murderer who is terrorizing London.
7.4/10
Comedy
USA
1942
100 Minutes
Pamela Hill
Ginger Rogers Ray Milland Rita Johnson Robert Benchley Diana Lynn Edward Fielding Frank Thomas Jr. Raymond Roe Charles Smith Larry Nunn Billy Dawson
major woman fiancée father sister lighthearted cheery amusing winsome new york city iowa train school scams mistaken identity romance military escape transformation forbidden love
A frustrated city girl disguises herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with a handsome Major.
6.5/10
Kids & Family, Drama
USA
1943
89 Minutes
Nell
Roddy McDowall Preston Foster Rita Johnson James Bell Jeff Corey Diana Hale Arthur Loft Jimmy Aubrey
boy father mother horse emotional touching farm barn school wyoming education responsibility family father/son relationship underdog growing up metamorphosis 1940s
Ken McLaughlin struggles to please his family in any way. He comes back from boarding school boasting poor grades and facing going through the fifth grade again, much to his fathers dismay.... See full summary »
6.4/10
Kids & Family, Adventure
USA
1945
78 Minutes
Nelle McLaughlin
Roddy McDowall Preston Foster Rita Johnson James Bell Diana Hale Carleton Young Ralph Sanford Robert Filmer Alan Bridge
horse teenager father horse trainer daughter charming melodramatic moving ranch wyoming wilderness horse breaking horsemanship horse racing coming of age father/son relationship sacrifice discovery 1940s
A young boy tries to train Thunderhead, a beautiful white colt and the son of his beloved Flicka, to be a champion race horse.
6.4/10
Comedy
USA
1948
90 Minutes
Minna Fenster
Claudette Colbert Fred MacMurray Rita Johnson Gigi Perreau Jimmy Hunt Peter Miles Lillian Bronson Hattie McDaniel Chill Wills Catherine Doucet Paul Harvey
A bachelor marries a widow and her three kids join the honeymoon.
Comedy
1940
70 Minutes
Kay McWade
Ann Sothern John Carroll Rita Johnson Shepperd Strudwick J.M. Kerrigan E.E. Clive Everett Brown Tom Fadden Lionel Pape Nathan Curry Leonard Mudie
Chorus girl Maisie (Ann Sothern), stranded in West Africa, stows away on a steamer heading for the jungle.
7.6/10
Fantasy
USA
1941
93 Minutes
Julia Farnsworth
Robert Montgomery Claude Rains Evelyn Keyes Rita Johnson Edward Everett Horton James Gleason John Emery Lloyd Bridges
boxer angel god millionaire girlfriend melodramatic heartwarming offbeat hilarious los angeles boxing ring bank mansion heaven afterlife big business boxing redemption romance metamorphosis
Boxer Joe Pendleton dies 50 years too soon due to a heavenly mistake, and is given a new life as a millionaire playboy.
6.3/10
Comedy
USA
1948
90 Minutes
Eve Lawrence
Fred MacMurray Madeleine Carroll Charles Rogers Rita Johnson Louise Allbritton Alan Mowbray
Vincent Doane is in the precarious position of trying to close an advertising account with his rich ex-fiancée. Unfortunately she is more interested in him than in business. Vincent's wife ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
1947
95 Minutes
Greta Ballentine
Robert Young Susan Hayward Jane Greer Rita Johnson Tom Powers George Tyne Don Beddoe Frank Ferguson Harry Harvey Wilton Graff Janet Shaw
defendant wife girlfriend mistress police officer crafty intricate shocking dark courtroom ranch los angeles trial murder mistaken identity infidelity marrying for money temptation fall wretched excess
A stockbroker (Robert Young) tells the court how his rich wife and one of two girlfriends (Susan Hayward, Jane Greer) died.
7.7/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1948
95 Minutes
Pauline York
Ray Milland Charles Laughton Maureen O'Sullivan George Macready Rita Johnson Elsa Lanchester Harold Vermilyea Dan Tobin Harry Morgan Richard Webb Tad Van Brunt
editor boss wife mistress henchman reporter spirited gripping cheeky new york city apartment bar office elevator antique shop disillusionment corporate culture journalism honeymoon cover-up
A magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself.
6.5/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1939
83 Minutes
Cecelia Grayson
Eleanor Powell Robert Young George Burns Gracie Allen Rita Johnson Clarence Kolb Jo Ann Sayers Ann Morriss Willie Fung Cliff Clark Ed Gargan
Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.
6.2/10
Drama
USA
1938
104 Minutes
Honey
Adolphe Menjou Andrea Leeds George Murphy Rita Johnson Eve Arden Ann Sheridan
An aging actor, about to marry for the fourth time, is surprised when a young woman, who is the daughter he never knew he had, appears with a "letter of introduction". It seems that she is ... See full summary »
6.0/10
Comedy
USA
1946
87 Minutes
Mabel Manning
Loretta Young David Niven Eddie Albert Charles Ruggles Virginia Field Rita Johnson ZaSu Pitts
Jenny and Dale Williams have been married ten years have a 9-year-old daughter, "Cookie." They live well, have separate careers, are surrounded by sophisticated friends, and are afflicted ... See full summary »
5.8/10
Musical
USA
1939
114 Minutes
Judith "Judy" Tyrrell
Jeanette MacDonald Lew Ayres Ian Hunter Frank Morgan Wally Vernon Rita Johnson Virginia Grey William Cargan Katharine Alexander Al Shean Esther Dale
Mary Hale (a singer) and Jimmy Seymour (pianist/composer), are a show biz couple working in The Big Apple in small night clubs hoping to hit it big. One night, Larry Bryant (a Broadway ... See full summary »
7.2/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1944
85 Minutes
Ray Milland Marjorie Reynolds Carl Esmond Hillary Brooke Percy Waram Dan Duryea Alan Napier Erskine Sanford Thomas Louden Aminta Dyne Rita Johnson
spy patient nazi detective psychic girl chilling dark crafty mental institution london fair train espionage world war ii paranoia escape 1940s
Stephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War II in England when he accidentally stumbles onto a deadly Nazi spy plot, and tries to stop it.
6.6/10
Comedy
USA
1954
98 Minutes
Dick Powell Debbie Reynolds Anne Francis Alvy Moore Glenda Farrell Horace MacMahon Herb Vigran Les Tremayne Mara Lane Maidie Norman Rita Johnson
writer juvenile delinquent best friend secretary girlfriend attorney cheeky amusing playful passionate los angeles las vegas cabin backwoods coffee shop bedroom may-december romance writing romantic dilemma living together
A Hollywood screenwriter takes in a runaway girl who's more woman than he can handle.
Other, Drama
1957
103 Minutes
Glynis Johns Cameron Mitchell Rex Thompson Patty McCormack Ernest Truex Hope Emerson Alan Hale Jr. Sylvia Field Royal Dano Reta Shaw Stephen Wootton
mother father older brother younger brother sister baby melodramatic touching wisconsin family home wilderness loss survival siblings frontier life orphans christmas quest growing up 1850s
An orphan (Rex Thompson) raised by Scottish pioneers (Glynis Johns, Cameron Mitchell) in Wisconsin seeks homes for his five younger siblings on Christmas.
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