Joseph L. Mankiewicz

With extraordinary beauty, talent and grace, Spanish dancer Maria Vargas (Ava Gardner) was born to be a star. Aided by American movie director Harry Dawes (Humphrey Bogart), she attains great success and fortune in Hollywood's land of dreams. But, though she gives her all for stardom, there is one thing Maria will never compromise - her soul.

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing. The cunning Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend, her playwright and his wife. Only the cynical drama critics see through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit....

In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.

Noah Praetorius, M.D., a doctor who believes that knowledge of the human emotions and spirit is as necessary for a medical person as anatomy. Affronted by these radical beliefs, old-liner Dr. Elwell sets out to prove he's a quack. But Dr. Praetorius simply practices what he preaches when he saves an unwed pregnant student from suicide and marries her.

Beautiful Catherine Holly is committed to a mental institution after witnessing the horrible death of her cousin at the hands of cannibals. Her rich aunt tries to influence a young neurosurgeon to surgically end Catherine's haunting hallucinations. By utilizing injections of truth serum, the neurosurgeon discovers that Catherine's delusions are in fact true and must confront the rich aunt about her own involvement in her son's violent death.

In this hilarious excursion into the battle of the sexes, Tracy plays Sam Craig, the down-to-earth sportswriter of the New York Chronicle. As Tess Harding, the paper's bright international columnist, Hepburn makes his life miserable. As soon as they start taking swipes at each other in their columns, there is little peace between them. In the office and in the bedroom the squabbling continues, until their problems are overcome by their deep love for...

Depression-era drama in which a young couple leads a group of unemployed people in forming a successful communal farm.

A Christmas carol: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge has a change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past, present and future. Christmas in Connecticut: A magazine columnist totally devoid of the homemaking skills espoused in her column needs to get some fast, as her boss has invited himself and a recently returned war hero to her home for Christmas. It happened on 5th Avenue: GI families hit by the post-World War II housing crunch take over an abandoned...

A streetcar named Desire: Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her. Julius Caesar: The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic. The teahouse of the August moon: Okinawa 1946- occupied by American troops whose assignment is to bring democracy to...

In New York, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a crap game.