Joan Leslie Filmes

In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes...

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.

The history of Hollywood musical movies, from the very beginning until the 21st century, hosted by Shirley Jones.

Produced for Turner Classic Movies, this documentary looks at the early days of the gangster film.

A wild-west trader and his New York wife head out for the California by wagon train. The trader is killed enroute, and his wife finds herself with...

The story of the Crucifixion, set within the context of the Korean War.

Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight....

A returning Korean War vet becomes embroiled in a fight over possession of a tungsten mine.

Laying on the Missouri-Arkansas border, the neutral Border City, its female mayor and city council, take no side in the ongoing Civil War and they're...

Aspiring actor Joe McDoakes blows his first part at Warner Bros. and has to settle for being a stand-in.

The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also...

Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business....

After a woman fervently wishes for another chance after a terrible tragedy, she is mysteriously granted one year of her life to be lived over.

Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the "real" America. He befriends cabbie Buzz Williams and, without knowing the...

Judy Jones can claim inheritance only if she marries a genius.

A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when...

Faye Dunaway hosts a behind-the-scenes look at the Hollywood star-making machine.

A returning GI searches for the wife who left him and gave away their son.

Documentary about American gangster movies.