William Frawley

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The Babe Ruth Story
5.2
1948

The Babe Ruth Story

The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.
Roxie Hart
6.9
1942

Roxie Hart

A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime she ...
Safe at Home!
5.5
1962

Safe at Home!

A Florida boy (Bryan Russell) tells his Little League buddies that his father knows two New York Yankees (Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris).
Rancho Notorious
6.8
1952

Rancho Notorious

A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing ...
Pretty Baby
6.5
1950

Pretty Baby

A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.
The Lady Takes a Sailor
5.9
1949

The Lady Takes a Sailor

Jennifer Smith heads a “Consumer Reports”-type company and her reputation for honesty is her greatest asset. While out boating one ...
Good Sam
6.3
1948

Good Sam

Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke ...
Chicken Every Sunday
6.4
1949

Chicken Every Sunday

A woman takes in boarders to support her husband’s harebrained financial schemes.
Mother Wore Tights
6.4
1947

Mother Wore Tights

In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a ...
The Virginian
6.4
1946

The Virginian

Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the “Virginian,” who gets off ...
Flame of Barbary Coast
6.2
1945

Flame of Barbary Coast

Duke Fergus falls for Ann ‘Flaxen’ Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler ...
The Fighting Seabees
6.4
1944

The Fighting Seabees

Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of ...
It Happened in Flatbush
6
1942

It Happened in Flatbush

A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
Gentleman Jim
7.5
1942

Gentleman Jim

As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert Jim Corbett uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top ...
The Bride Came C.O.D.
6.9
1941

The Bride Came C.O.D.

A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.
Rhythm on the River
6.8
1940

Rhythm on the River

Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both ...
One Night in the Tropics
6.3
1940

One Night in the Tropics

Jim “Lucky” Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a ‘love insurance policy’, ...
St. Louis Blues
6.3
1939

St. Louis Blues

A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and ...
Mad About Music
7.1
1938

Mad About Music

A young woman at a girl’s school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer ...
High, Wide and Handsome
6.4
1937

High, Wide and Handsome

The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but ...
Strike Me Pink
6.4
1936

Strike Me Pink

Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
The General Died at Dawn
6.5
1936

The General Died at Dawn

China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O’Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a ...
Alibi Ike
6.1
1935

Alibi Ike

Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis “Ike” Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.
Here Is My Heart
6.6
1934

Here Is My Heart

A rich and famous singer disguises himself as a waiter in order to be near the woman he loves, a European princess.
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