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David and Bathsheba

David and Bathsheba (1951) starring Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward
David and Bathsheba is a very un-Biblical Biblical epic. It tells the story of King David’s adulterous affair, resulting in murder …
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As Young As You Feel

As Young As You Feel, starring Monty Wooley, David Wayne, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Constance Bennet, Marilyn Monroe
As Young As You Feel (1951), starring Monty Wooley, David Wayne, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Constance Bennet, Marilyn Monroe Synopsis of As Young as You Feel In As Young as You Feel, a senior (Monty Wooley) decides to impersonate the head of a company — to dispense with their over-65 rule.
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Show Boat

Showboat (1951) starring Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner
Show Boat (1951) starring Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner Product description of Show Boat  One of the greatest Broadway musicals comes to the screen in this tale of music, racial bigotry and enduring love as outsized as the American heartland set aboard a Mississippi River Show Boat. Magnolia Brown has grown...
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Happy Go Lovely [musical]

Happy Go Lovely (1951) starring Vera-Ellen, David Niven, Cesar Romero
Happy Go Lovely (1951) starring Vera-Ellen, David Niven, Cesar Romero In Happy Go Lovely, a chorus girl becomes the star in a broke producer’s show after she’s mistakenly linked with a millionaire in Scotland.
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Bride of the Gorilla [Raymond Burr]

Bride of the Gorilla (1951) starring Raymond Burr, Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney, Jr., Tom Conway
Bride of the Gorilla (1951) starring Raymond Burr, Barbara Payton, Lon Chaney, Jr., Tom Conway Deep in the South American jungle plantation manager Barney Chavez kills his elderly employer in order to get to his beautiful wife. However, an old native witch witnesses the crime and puts a...
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Superman and the Mole Men

Superman and the Mole Man (1951) starring George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, Jeff Corey
Superman and the Mole Man (1951) starring George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, Jeff Corey In Superman and the Mole Men, drilling the deepest oil well ever creates an opening for the subterranean Mole Men to visit the surface. They’re simply curious … But paranoid townspeople fear their glowing in...
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Lost Continent [Cesar Romero]

Robert L. Lippert's Lost Continent - Monsters in a land that time forget! Starring Cesar Romero, Hugh Beaumont, John Hoyt
Lost Continent (1951) starring Cesar Romero, John Hoyt, Hugh Beaumont, Hillary Brooke Synopsis Lost Continent begins when an atomic-powered military rocket is lost in an unexplored region of the South Pacific. An Air Force expedition is dispatched to find it. Searching by air, their plane goes out of...
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An American in Paris [Gene Kelly]

An American in Paris (1951), starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, directed by Vincente Minelli
An American in Paris (1951), starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, directed by Vincente Minelli Synopsis of An American in Paris Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron sing and dance to the music of George and Ira Gershwin in An American in Paris. When ex-GI Jerry Mulligan (Kelly) remains...
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Jezebel song lyrics

Song lyrics to Jezebel (1951) written by Wayne Shanklin. The title refers to the biblical Jezebel, a wicked, Baal-worshipping Phoenician princess who ruled Israel as queen to King Ahab.
Song lyrics to Jezebel (1951) written by Wayne Shanklin. The title refers to the biblical Jezebel, a wicked, Baal-worshipping Phoenician princess who ruled Israel as queen to King Ahab.
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