Cary Grant plays gambler, Joe Adams, who takes on the identity of a dead gangster in order to avoid the draft. Adams plans to use a war relief charity to get his gambling operation up and running, until he falls in love with Lorraine Day and has a change of heart.

Directed by Mark Cousins, My Name is Alfred Hitchcock re-examines the vast filmography and legacy of one of the 20th century’s greatest filmmakers, Alfred Hitchcock, through a new lens: through the auteur’s own voice.

Mae West achieved great acclaim in every entertainment medium that existed during her lifetime, spanning eight decades of the 20th century. A full-time actress at seven, a vaudevillian at 14, a dancing sensation at 25, a Broadway playwright at 33, a silver screen ingénue at 40, a Vegas nightclub act at 62, a recording artist at 73, a camp icon at 85 - West left no format unconquered. She possessed creative and economic powers unheard of for a female entertainer in the 1930's and still rare today. Though she was a comedian, West grappled with some of the more complex social issues of the 20th century, including race and class tensions, and imbued even her most salacious plot lines with commentary about gender conformity, societal restrictions and what she perceived as moral hypocrisy. American Masters - Mae West: Dirty Blonde is the first major documentary film to explore West's life and career, as she "climbed the ladder of success rung by rung" to become a writer, performer and subversive agitator for social change. Produced and directed by Sally Rosenthal and Julia Marchesi.

Cathy Timberlake is en route to a job interview when a car transporting businessman Philip Shayne covers her in mud. He sends his assistant, Roger, to apologize, but upon meeting Cathy, Roger knows that she would be a suitable match for his boss. Despite their mutual attraction, Cathy and Philip want different things. Philip wants a fling, while Cathy wants a marriage. As they travel to exotic locales, their differing motivations are put to the test.

Victor and Hillary are down on their luck to the point that they allow tourists to take guided tours of their castle. But Charles Delacro, a millionaire oil tycoon, visits, and takes a liking to more than the house. Soon, Hattie Durant gets involved and they have a good old fashioned love triangle.

Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple. Unfortunately there seems to be too much business and not enough pleasure on the part of Effie. When Clemson meets Tarji, a princess trained in all the arts of pleasing men, he decides he wants an old fashioned girl. Princess Tarji's father is king of oil-rich Bukistan. Because of the oil situation and to maintain good political relations during the courtship between Clemson & Tarji, the State Department assigns a diplomat to maintain protocol until the wedding - Effie!

柯尔波特是早期美国流行乐坛最著名的作曲家，从二十年代后期即已在娱乐圈崭露头角，在三十年代的"黄金时代"更有不少名曲出自他的手笔。然而波特的祖父一直不同意他走作曲家的路，甚至在波特成名后仍加以排斥。他在壮年的事业高峰期1937年坠马受伤，双腿不利于行，对他的身心造成甚大影响。幸而波特克服困扰，继续发挥其作曲才华，并扬名好莱坞。
无论是导演迈克尔．柯蒂兹的处理手法，或是卡里．格兰特的表演技巧，都只是平平而已。这部音乐传记片最值得欣赏的还是多位著名歌星密集亮相，演唱多首悦耳动听的插曲，让人了解到柯尔波特为何能够在美国乐坛大放异彩。2004年的影片《小可爱》讲述的也是这位音乐家的故事。
音乐家生平：
柯尔·波特于1891年6月9日出生在印第安纳州的秘鲁，他在很小的时候就接受了小提琴和钢琴的训练，在10岁的时候就写出了自己的第一首歌曲--《鸟儿之歌》(Song Of The Birds)。在1902年，他母亲帮助他出版了第一首作品"食米鸟华尔兹舞曲"(The Bobolink Waltz)。耶鲁大学毕业之后他到哈佛就读双休音乐与法律，因此可以说是理性与感性兼具的人。
他曾经到过巴黎音乐院、维也纳发展。在1919年，他同富有的社会名流琳达·李·托马斯(Linda Lee Thomas)结婚，琳达当时被公认为是世界上最有魅力的人之一。生活美满的波特开始将他的主要精力投入到音乐剧的创作上来。柯尔·波特总共创作了23部作品，但只有1948年的《吻我，凯特》(Kiss Me，Kate)称得上是经典之作，毕竟在音乐剧创作方面，佳作总是可遇而不可求的。一部好的音乐剧作品中可能会有好多首作品传世，也可能几部作品中也没有一首能让人回忆起来的作品，观众的喜好对于创作者来说，有时是很残酷的事情。
就在他的事业如日中天、正在巅峰的时候，波特迎来了生命中最大的挑战--1937年，他从一匹马身上坠落。他的腿被摔断，此后他接受了数不清的手术，最终还接受了截肢的残酷现实，直到他1964年逝世，疼痛和内心的痛苦一直伴随着他。
据说波特的晚年生活非常凄惨，在1958年的时候他被迫接受了截肢手术，从此之后他就过起了离群索居的生活。1960年耶鲁大学曾授予他名誉博士的荣誉，1964年他凄惨地在好莱坞逝世。
波特在旋律创作方面的天赋并不是出色的，但他对音乐的感觉，对音乐技巧的把握是同时代的其他人所无法比拟的。波特不仅给我们留下来一连串的动人的美妙歌曲，更为重要的是，他的名字代表了美国30年代的观点和态度。"柯尔·波特"是百老汇音乐剧在30年代的代名词，也给"雅致"这一表演风格下了个人化的定义。

At the start of WWII, Katie O'Hara, an American burlesque girl intent on social climbing, marries Austrian Baron Von Luber. Pat O'Toole, an American radio reporter, sees this as a chance to investigate Von Luber, who is suspected of having Nazi ties. As country after country falls to the Nazis, O'Tool follows O'Hara across Europe. At first he is after a story, but he gradually falls in love with her. When she learns that her husband is indeed a Nazi, O'Hara fakes her death and runs off with O'Toole. In Paris, she is recruited to spy for the allies; he uses a radio broadcast to make Von Luber and the Nazis look like fools.

During World War II, South Sea beachcomber Walter Eckland is persuaded to spy on planes passing over his island. He gets more than he bargained for as schoolteacher Catherine Frenau arrives on the run from the Japanese with her pupils in tow!

1810年，拿破仑挥军进攻西班牙，城镇陆被占领，西班牙束手无策，连连战败，于撤退时，将一门巨炮偷偷丢下山谷，而此巨炮正是英、法两国急欲获得的东西。 　　英国派海军上校安东尼到西班牙接洽转让巨炮事宜，然而部队早已撤走，遇到反抗法军的游击队，反抗军领袖米凯尔与安东尼议，由安东尼修复巨炮并教导反抗军使用直到攻下艾维拉城再转让英国，安东尼同意：果然艾维拉一役，巨炮发挥强大火力轰垮城墙，反抗军攻下艾维拉，安东尼完成任务，将巨炮运回英国！

纽约著名的戏界人士杰里，因该行业不景气，再加上资金周转不灵，剧院面临倒闭。可就在这时，怪事出现了，他碰到的亚瑟居然有一双闻歌起舞的毛毛虫，杰里觉得这简直是个神话，杰里灵感来了，他千方百计地拉拢亚瑟，骗取其信任，即而可将毛虫高价出售。由此可以挽救崩溃的剧院。于是，有了煤体大势炒作，一时间毛虫成了社会的焦点。毛虫的买卖眼看就要成了，就在这时，杰里的骗局被亚瑟识破，不想把自己心爱的宝贝卖掉，正当两人发生争执时，毛虫神奇地失踪了……

Dr. Eugene Ferguson (Cary Grant), a renowned American brain surgeon, and his wife Helen (Paula Raymond) are vacationing in Latin America when a revolution breaks out. They are taken against their will to the country's dictator, Raoul Farrago (José Ferrer), who urgently needs a life-saving operation.
Over the next few days, while Ferguson trains assistants for the delicate operation, he witnesses various acts of brutality by the regime, especially by Colonel Adragon (Ramón Novarro), but his Hippocratic Oath compels him to do his best.
Roland Gonzales (Gilbert Roland), the rebel leader, kidnaps Helen to pressure her husband into making a fatal surgical "mistake." His message to Ferguson is intercepted by Isabel Farrago (Signe Hasso), the patient's wife, and the operation is a success. Helen is released unharmed when Farrago dies soon afterwards and his government is overthrown.

二次大战结束后，海军战争英雄指挥官安迪.奎森（加里.格兰特）和两名同僚开展了一个为期四天的旧金山之旅。在这里，安迪爱上了造船大亨的未婚妻格温妮丝（苏兹.帕克）；而另一名海军英雄麦卡南（雷.沃斯顿）则想利用自己的身份巩固自己的政治地位。同时，造船大亨的女儿爱丽丝（简.曼斯菲尔德）也凭着一腔爱国责任渗透进来。

A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.

American Masters explores the life and career of Cary Grant (born Archie Leach) with celebrity interviews.

Tira (Mae West) shimmies and sings in the sideshow of Big Bill Barton's Wonder Show, while her current boyfriend, pickpocket "Slick" (Ralf Harolde), relieves her distracted audience of their valuables for Big Bill (Edward Arnold). One of the rich customers, Ernest Brown, arranges a private rendezvous, during which Slick barges in and attempts to run a badger game on the customer. The customer threatens to call the cops, so Slick whacks him over the head with a bottle. Mistakenly thinking he has killed the man, Slick flees, but is caught and jailed.
Fearing that Slick will implicate her, Tira asks Big Bill for a loan to retain her lawyer, Bennie Pinkowitz (Gregory Ratoff). He agrees on condition that she does her lion taming act, which includes putting her head into the mouth of one of the beasts, promising her that it will get her (and him) to the "Big Show". It does. (West did some of her own stunts, including riding an elephant into the ring.[citation needed])
Tira's fame takes her to New York City, where wealthy Kirk Lawrence (Kent Taylor) is smitten, despite being engaged to snobbish socialite Alicia Hatton (Gertrude Michael). He showers her with expensive gifts. Kirk's friend and even richer cousin, Jack Clayton (Cary Grant), goes to see Tira to ask her to leave Kirk and his fiancée alone. He ends up falling for her himself. Tira and Jack’s romance leads to a wedding engagement.
Tira tells Big Bill she is quitting to get married. Unwilling to lose his prize act, he has Slick, recently released from prison, sneak into Tira's penthouse suite, where Jack finds him in his robe. As a result, Jack breaks off the engagement. Tira sues Jack for breach of promise. The defense tries to use her past relationships to discredit her, but the judge allows her to cross examine the witnesses herself and in doing so she wins over not only the judge and jury, but also Jack. Jack agrees to give her a big settlement check. When he goes to see her, Tira tears up the check, and the two reconcile.

Biography of director George Stevens by his son. It includes clips from many of his films with commentary by the actors and by directors such as Frank Capra, John Huston and Alan Pakula, among others. Also included are Stevens's war "home movies," found only after his death. Assigned by Eisenhower to film the war in Europe, Stevens used the opportunity to produce, at the same time, the only color footage ever shot in World War II. There is breathtaking film of D-Day and its aftermath; the triumphal march through Paris of the Allied liberators; and the unspeakable horrors of Dachau. This is what Goya might have done with a movie camera. On a more mundane level is a segment on Cecil B. DeMille's 1950 underhanded attempt to oust Joseph L. Mankiewicz, then president, from the Directors' Guild, which Stevens was instrumental in blocking.

After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.

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Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic-surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the affects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher...after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.

1938 film by George Cukor