List of the best Virginia Farmer movies: Darling, How Could You!(1951), Cyrano de Bergerac(1950), Born to Be Bad(1950), Another Part of the Forest(1948), Our Hearts Were Growing Up(1946), Lady in the Dark(1944), To Each His Own(1946), Hangmen Also Die(1943), Captain Carey, U.S.A.(1950), Shockproof(1949), This Gun for Hire(1942), None but the Lonely Heart(1944) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1951
96 Minutes
Fanny
Joan Fontaine John Lund Mona Freeman Peter Hansen David Stollery Virginia Farmer Angela Clarke Lowell Gilmore Robert Barrat Gertrude Michael Mary Murphy
Based on James Barrie's play "Alice Sit-By-The-Fire". In turn-of-the-century New York, a young girl who believes she's learned "the seamy side of life" from a risque play takes it upon ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1950
112 Minutes
Duenna
Jose Ferrer Mala Powers William Prince Morris Carnovsky Ralph Clanton Lloyd Corrigan Virginia Farmer Edgar Barrier Elena Verdugo Albert Cavens Arthur Blake
poet love interest soldier cyrano de bergerac tender witty endearing paris theater hotel love triangle romance poetry love quest 17th century
The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves in this straightforward version of the play.
Drama
USA
1950
94 Minutes
Aunt Clara Caine
Joan Fontaine Robert Ryan Zachary Scott Joan Leslie Mel Ferrer Harold Vermilyea Virginia Farmer Kathleen Howard Dick Ryan Bess Flowers Joy Hallward
novelist cousin fiancé socialite wealthy man femme fatale brash dark melodramatic tense san francisco boston family home ballroom manipulation family love triangle marrying for money affair deception
A woman's attempt to appear innocent and sweet clashes with her lover who sees through her act and the wealthy man she tries to trick into marrying her.
Drama
USA
1948
107 Minutes
Fredric March Dan Duryea Edmond O'Brien Ann Blyth Florence Eldridge John Dall Dona Drake Betsy Blair Fritz Leiber Whit Bissell Don Beddoe
This 'prequel' to The Little Foxes tells how the ruthless members of the old-South Hubbard family got that way.
Romance
USA
1946
83 Minutes
Gail Russell Diana Lynn Brian Donlevy James Brown Bill Edwards William Demarest Billy De Wolfe Sharon Douglas Mary Hatcher Sara Haden Mikhail Rasumny
Cornelia and Emily, at college in the early 1920s, have triangle trouble with their beaus. Their affairs become entangled with those of a chance-met, kindly bootlegger. Much of the humor ... See full summary »
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.
Drama
USA
1946
122 Minutes
Olivia de Havilland John Lund Mary Anderson Roland Culver Phillip Terry Bill Goodwin Virginia Welles Victoria Horne Griff Barnett Alma Macrorie Bill Ward
businesswoman pilot lord wife father son engaging fascinating intense london roof new york state pharmacy household train station illegitimate child adoption jealousy love world war ii
An unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son's life from afar even as she prospers in business.
War
USA
1943
131 Minutes
Brian Donlevy Walter Brennan Anna Lee Gene Lockhart Dennis O'Keefe Alexander Granach Margaret Wycherly Nana Bryant William Roy Hans Heinrich von Twardowski Tonio Selwart
rebel nazi professor traitor suspenseful gripping patriotic rousing czechoslovakia city prague nazism rebellion assassination political intrigue world war ii escape rescue 1940s
After the Nazi administrator of Czechoslovakia is shot, his assassin tries to elude the Gestapo and struggles with his impulse to give himself up as hostages are executed.
Drama
USA
1950
83 Minutes
Alan Ladd Wanda Hendrix Francis Lederer Celia Lovsky Angela Clarke Richard Avonde Joseph Calleia Roland Winters Frank Puglia Luis Alberni Jane Nigh
captain secret agent young man traitor love interest young woman intense gutsy patriotic milan small town battlefield family home world war ii secret mission betrayal reunion war crime military quest
A group of agents in the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the C.I.A.) are sent to Italy during World War II to spy on the Germans. Most of them are killed because of an ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1949
79 Minutes
Cornel Wilde Patricia Knight John Baragrey Esther Minciotti Howard St. John Russell Collins Charles Bates Gilbert Barnett Frank Jaquet Ann Shoemaker King Donovan
convict parole officer ex-convict love interest elderly person dark melodramatic prison bedroom family home parole prison trust second chance murder temptation forbidden love rivalry 1940s
A Parole Officer falls in-love with his client, a ravishing blonde who served time for murder, and he's determined to help her go straight despite her interfering criminal boyfriend.
Crime, Drama
USA
1942
80 Minutes
Alan Ladd Veronica Lake Robert Preston Laird Cregar Tully Marshall Mikhail Rasumny Marc Lawrence Adele Pearce Harry Shannon Frank Ferguson Bernadene Hayes
hit man nightclub owner wealthy man beautiful woman police officer chemist dark brutal cool san francisco nightclub train los angeles hideout double-cross contract killing manhunt unlikely friendship reform revenge
When assassin Philip Raven shoots a blackmailer and his beautiful female companion dead, he is paid off in marked bills by his treasonous employer who is working with foreign spies.
Drama
USA
1944
113 Minutes
Cary Grant Ethel Barrymore Barry Fitzgerald June Duprez Jane Wyatt George Coulouris Dan Duryea Konstantin Shayne Eva Lernard Boyne Morton Lowry Helene Thimig
mother son musician gangster wife brooding dark london shop house death business crime mother/son relationship fall discovery temptation forbidden love 1930s
When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they are both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.
Drama
USA
1947
83 Minutes
Shirley Temple Ronald Reagan Dorothy Peterson Rory Calhoun Lois Maxwell Charles Kemper Conrad Janis Penny Edwards Jean Porter Nella Walker Harry Davenport
adopted daughter mother ex-boyfriend professor socialite father melodramatic engaging ohio small town college dance floor theater river class distinctions adoption small-town life gossip attempted suicide outcasts
Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her real parents. When Tom Bates returns to ... See full summary »