Movies: May Robson

Based on a true story, two-timing boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he leaves her, and finagles her way out being indicted. The basis for Kander/Ebb's 1975 Broadway musical of the same name and its Oscar-winning 2002 film ad...

An elderly schoolteacher is determined to rid her town of the local gambling den....

In this through-the-years saga about a show business family, the fame of husband and wife vaudeville headliners of the 1880s is eclipsed by their son....

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1939....

Molly, an Irish girl just hired by a New York newspaper, is assigned as a test a chain interview of celebrities that must be accomplished within a set amount of time. She goes through innumerable paths and obstacles to achieve the goal....

In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk....

An unprincipled female financier tries to get even with a rival railroad buyer....

When the Stack family suffers some financial setbacks, daughter Mary Ellen suggests they buy a car and relocate to California. Unbeknownst to them, their used car is worth more than they ever could have imagined....

Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war....

Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies....

A scorned woman dreams of revenge on the man who betrayed her....

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance speeches for films released in 1939 with recipients and presenters including Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Ha...

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1940....

A parade highlights the Screen Actors Guild's Film Stars Frolic, hosted by Walter Winchell as Master of Ceremonies....

An elderly woman turns sheriff to clear her granddaughter of murder charges....

A grandmother has an adventure for the first time in her life when she decides to have a night out....

Fay Wray plays Jean Hastings, the wealthy and spoiled scion of a factory-owning family led by her irrepressible grandmother. Sparks fly when Jean meets Jim Devlin, the labor leader who’s spearheading a tense worker’s strike against the factory. After...

Investigating rumors that a priceless Rembrandt, believed destroyed years ago, is actually in the possession of an elderly spinster, a male newspaper reporter and his female rival determine that it is genuine but subsequently learn it has been stolen...

To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother....

A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York....