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A Summer Place (film)
A Summer Place (1959) is a Warner Bros. melodrama written, produced, and directed by Delmer Daves from Sloan Wilson's novel, starring Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, and Troy Donahue, famous for Percy Faith's Grammy-winning theme.
Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)
Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 Disney animated musical fantasy film adapted from Lewis Carroll's books and directed by Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, and Wilfred Jackson.
All That Heaven Allows
All That Heaven Allows is a 1955 Douglas Sirk Technicolor melodrama starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson, about a widow's romance with her younger gardener; initially dismissed by critics, now considered Sirk's masterpiece.
An Affair to Remember
An Affair to Remember (1957) is a Leo McCarey romantic melodrama starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, remaking his 1939 Love Affair; four Oscar nominations, AFI's #5 love story.
And God Created Woman (1956 film)
And God Created Woman (Et Dieu... créa la femme) is a 1956 French drama directed by Roger Vadim, starring Brigitte Bardot as a free-spirited orphan in Saint-Tropez.
Ask Any Girl
Ask Any Girl is a 1959 MGM romantic comedy directed by Charles Walters, starring David Niven, Shirley MacLaine, and Gig Young, based on Winifred Wolfe's 1958 novel; MacLaine won a Berlin Silver Bear and a BAFTA for it.
Auntie Mame (film)
Auntie Mame (1958) is a Warner Bros. Technirama comedy directed by Morton DaCosta, starring Rosalind Russell reprising her Broadway role as Mame Dennis, adapted from Patrick Dennis's 1955 novel; six Oscar nominations, two Golden Globes, $23.3 million box office.
Baby Doll
Baby Doll (1956) is Elia Kazan's Tennessee Williams comedy-drama starring Karl Malden, Carroll Baker, and Eli Wallach, condemned by the Legion of Decency and a landmark in the decline of Hollywood censorship.
Bell, Book and Candle
Bell, Book, and Candle: 1958 Columbia romantic comedy-fantasy directed by Richard Quine, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak as a publisher bewitched by a Greenwich Village witch; adapted from John Van Druten's 1950 Broadway play, Oscar-nominated for art direction and costume design, and an inspiration for Bewitched.
Black Orpheus
Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro, Orfeu do Carnaval) is Marcel Camus's 1959 French-Italian-Brazilian film retelling the Orpheus and Eurydice myth in Rio's favelas during Carnival, starring Breno Mello and Marpessa Dawn, with a Jobim-Bonfá bossa nova soundtrack, winner of the 1959 Palme d'Or and the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
Born Yesterday
Born Yesterday is a 1950 Columbia Pictures comedy-drama directed by George Cukor, adapted from Garson Kanin's 1946 Broadway play. Judy Holliday won Best Actress as Billie Dawn; the film earned four other Oscar nominations and joined the National Film Registry in 2012.
Bus Stop
Bus Stop (1956) is a Joshua Logan romantic comedy-drama, also known as Автобусная остановка, adapted from William Inge's Broadway play, starring Marilyn Monroe as singer Cherie and Don Murray as cowboy Bo Decker, Monroe's first film under her renegotiated Fox contract.
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick
Der Hauptmann von Köpenick: 1956 West German tragicomedy by Helmut Käutner, adapted from Carl Zuckmayer's play, starring Heinz Rühmann as impostor shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt; Oscar-nominated 1957, shot in Hamburg, premiered 16 August 1956 in Cologne.
Designing Woman
Designing Woman is a 1957 MGM romantic comedy directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Gregory Peck and Lauren Bacall as a sportswriter and fashion designer in a whirlwind marriage; it won George Wells the 1958 Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
Don't Go Near the Water
Don't Go Near the Water is a 1957 MGM comedy directed by Charles Walters, starring Glenn Ford and Gia Scala, adapted from William Brinkley's bestselling 1956 Navy public relations novel.
El Analfabeto
El Analfabeto (The Illiterate One) is a 1961 Mexican comedy directed by Miguel M. Delgado, starring Cantinflas as Inocencio Prieto y Calvo, an illiterate carpenter who inherits two million pesos and learns to read to claim it; filmed in Guanajuato, Posa Films, 128 minutes.
Father of the Bride (1950 film)
Father of the Bride (1950) is Vincente Minnelli's MGM comedy adapted from Edward Streeter's novel, starring Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, and Don Taylor; a top-1950 grosser with three Oscar nominations, later remade in 1991.
Father's Little Dividend
Father's Little Dividend (1951) is Vincente Minnelli's MGM comedy sequel to Father of the Bride, with Spencer Tracy, Joan Bennett, and Elizabeth Taylor returning as Stanley Banks faces becoming a grandfather.
Forever, Darling
Forever, Darling (1956) is an American fantasy romantic comedy directed by Alexander Hall, starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, and James Mason as a guardian angel; the second and final Ball-Arnaz film, a Zanra Productions/MGM box office disappointment.
Genevieve (1953 film)
Genevieve is a 1953 British comedy directed by Henry Cornelius, written by William Rose, starring John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan, Kenneth More, and Kay Kendall in a London-to-Brighton vintage car rally race; it won the BAFTA for Best British Film.
Gidget (film)
Gidget (1959), Paul Wendkos comedy starring Sandra Dee, James Darren, Cliff Robertson; Columbia adaptation of Frederick Kohner's novel about Kathy Kohner; spawned sequels, TV series, and the beach-movie genre.
Good Morning (お早よう)
Good Morning (お早よう, Ohayō) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1959 Shochiku color comedy, a loose remake of his 1932 silent I Was Born, But…, in which two Tokyo suburban boys take a vow of silence to force their parents to buy a television.
Hobson's Choice (1954 film)
Hobson's Choice (1954) is David Lean's British comedy, adapted from Harold Brighouse's 1916 play, starring Charles Laughton, Brenda De Banzie, and John Mills; it won the 1954 Golden Bear and the BAFTA for Best British Film. Not the kitchen company or the 1983 TV remake.
Houseboat (1958 film)
Houseboat (1958) is a Paramount romantic comedy directed by Melville Shavelson, starring Cary Grant and Sophia Loren, based on Betsy Drake's uncredited story, filmed on the Potomac, and nominated for two Oscars including the song Almost in Your Arms.
How to Marry a Millionaire
How to Marry a Millionaire, 1953 Twentieth Century-Fox comedy directed by Jean Negulesco, starring Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, and Lauren Bacall; first film completed in CinemaScope, second released after The Robe, grossing about $8 million worldwide.
Indiscreet
Indiscreet is a 1958 romantic comedy directed by Stanley Donen, starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman as Philip Adams and Anna Kalman, adapted by Norman Krasna from his play Kind Sir, with a famous split-screen bed scene.
It Should Happen to You
It Should Happen to You (1954) is a George Cukor romantic comedy, written by Garson Kanin, starring Judy Holliday as Gladys Glover, a model who rents a Columbus Circle billboard to become famous, with Jack Lemmon in his film debut.
It Started with a Kiss
It Started with a Kiss (1959) is a George Marshall MGM sex comedy starring Glenn Ford and Debbie Reynolds as newlyweds in Spain, notable for the red Lincoln Futura concept car later used as TV's Batmobile.
Jumping Jacks
Jumping Jacks (1952) is a Paramount musical comedy directed by Norman Taurog, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis as paratroopers staging a camp show at Fort Benning; notable for its Army cooperation and HUAC writer controversy.
La Ilusión Viaja en Tranvía
La ilusión viaja en tranvía (Illusion Travels by Streetcar) is a 1954 Mexican comedy by Luis Buñuel, produced by Clasa Films Mundiales, in which tram workers Caireles and Tarrajas steal tram 133 before it is scrapped.