Woman of the Year (1942)

Woman of the Year (1942)

[7] After ending her late '30s career slump with The Philadelphia Story, Katharine Hepburn followed up with another smash hit, Woman of the Year. It was her fateful first pairing with Spencer Tracy, with whom she'd make eight more films. He would…
Santa Fe Trail (1940)

Santa Fe Trail (1940)

[5] Errol Flynn's third western casts him as dutiful West Point cadet Jeb Stuart, sent to Kansas to quell an abolitionist rebellion led by the pious John Brown (Raymond Massey). The film pairs Flynn with future president Ronald Reagan as a grinning…
Keeper of the Flame (1942)

Keeper of the Flame (1942)

[5] In the second of their nine pairings, Spencer Tracy plays a highly-regarded journalist investigating the death of Katharine Hepburn's husband, a beloved national war hero. At first, information is hard to come by. But once he begins talking with Hepburn and…
The Lady Gambles (1949)

The Lady Gambles (1949)

[5] Barbara Stanwyck catches the gambling bug something fierce in this melodramatic film co-starring Robert Preston as her worried husband. Stanwyck dips her toes in a Las Vegas casino during a vacation and quickly falls under the spell of craps and poker.…
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1948)

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1948)

[5] Cary Grant is playboy artist who attracts the unwanted attention of a lusty seventeen-year-old (Shirley Temple) after giving a lecture at her school. The girl's sister, played by Myrna Loy, uses her position as a judge of the courts to force…
My Reputation (1946)

My Reputation (1946)

[6] Barbara Stanwyck stars as a recently widowed woman who causes a stir in her social circle when she finds new love with an army major (George Brent). She's prepared to defy her friends and mother, but when her twelve and fourteen-year-old…
Objective, Burma! (1945)

Objective, Burma! (1945)

[7] Errol Flynn leads a special ops platoon who parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma during World War II. Their mission is to blow up an important radar station, then make their way to an abandoned runway for pickup. But when the Japanese swarm…
Adam’s Rib (1949)

Adam’s Rib (1949)

[9] Of the nine films which paired Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, Adam's Rib is often considered the best. Writers Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin were friends of the famous couple and wrote the film specifically for them. Kate insisted the film…
Edge of Darkness (1943)

Edge of Darkness (1943)

[9] If you want to watch Errol Flynn fight the Nazis, this is your movie! Edge of Darkness is a great World War II drama told from the perspective of a small Norwegian fishing village under Nazi control. Flynn heads up a…
Under Capricorn (1949)

Under Capricorn (1949)

[3] In one of the lesser offerings from director Alfred Hitchcock, Michael Wilding plays a Brit visiting colonial Australia. To the dismay of his uncle (Cecil Parker), the new governor of the colony, Wilding's character gets caught up in the affairs of…