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Ann Sheridan
Ann Sheridan (February 21, 1915 – January 21, 1967) was an American film actress.
Born Clara Lou Sheridan in Denton, Texas, she was a college student when her sister sent a photograph of her to Paramount Pictures. She subsequently entered and won a beauty contest, with part of her prize being a bit...
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Dodge City
Dodge City is a Technicolor Western film starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. Directed by Hungarian-turned-Hollywood filmmaker Michael Curtiz and based on a story by Robert Buckner, it was filmed in early Technicolor. As a classic western,...
I Was a Male War Bride
I Was a Male War Bride is a 1949 comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant and Ann Sheridan. This film was based upon the true account of the real Henri Rochard, a Belgian who married an American nurse; the experience was told in...
Kings Row
Kings Row is a 1942 drama film, directed by Sam Wood, that tells a story of young people growing up in a small American town at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, beset by social pressure, dark secrets, and the challenges and...
Nora Prentiss
Nora Prentiss is a 1947 black-and-white drama film shot in the film noir style. The film, considered by some to be a "woman's noir", was directed by Vincent Sherman, who bought the story for $2500. Sherman also directed leading lady Ann Sheridan in...
The Unfaithful
The Unfaithful is a 1947 film noir based (though not credited) on the W. Somerset Maugham penned 1940 Bette Davis movie, The Letter. The film was directed by Vincent Sherman, who also directed the 1947 Ann Sheridan movie Nora Prentiss.
They Drive by Night
They Drive by Night is a 1940 black-and-white film noir starring George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, and Humphrey Bogart.
Joe (George Raft) and Paul Fabrini (Humphrey Bogart) are Wildcat or, independent truck drivers who have their own small one...
Woman on the Run
Woman on the Run is a 1950 black-and-white film noir directed by Norman Foster.
As the film opens, a man, Frank Johnson, is walking his dog in the city at night. He witnesses a man talking about a crime in a car and then gets shot. Johnson is seen...
They Made Me a Criminal
They Made Me a Criminal is a 1939 Warner Bros. drama crime film directed by Busby Berkeley and starring John Garfield, Claude Rains, and The Dead End Kids. It is a remake of the 1933 film The Life of Jimmy Dolan.
Johnnie Bradfield (John Garfield) is...
Rumba
Rumba is a 1935 film starring George Raft as a Cuban dancer and Carole Lombard as a Manhattan socialite. The movie was directed by Marion Gering and is considered an unsuccessful follow-up to Raft and Lombard's smash hit Bolero the previous year.
Angels with Dirty Faces
Angels with Dirty Faces is a 1938 Warner Bros. gangster film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, the Dead End Kids and Humphrey Bogart, along with Ann Sheridan and George Bancroft. The film was written by Rowland Brown...
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Thank Your Lucky Stars is a 1943 film made by Warner Brothers as a World War II fundraiser. It was directed by David Butler and starred Eddie Cantor, Dennis Morgan, Joan Leslie, Edward Everett Horton and S. Z. Sakall.
The film was a musical with a...
The Opposite Sex
The Opposite Sex (1956) is a musical remake of the 1939 classic comedy The Women. Both films are based on Claire Boothe Luce's original play. The 1956 musical was directed by David Miller and stars June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Ann...
Edge of Darkness
Edge of Darkness is a war film released in 1943. It was directed by Lewis Milestone and stars Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, and Walter Huston. It was based on a script by Robert Rossen which was adapted from a novel by William Woods.
The film is...
The Lemon Drop Kid
The Lemon Drop Kid is a 1951 comedy film based on the short story by writer Damon Runyon. The black-and-white movie stars Bob Hope. The Christmas song "Silver Bells," sung by Hope and Marilyn Maxwell, was introduced in the film. The film was...
The Angels Wash Their Faces
The Angels Wash Their Faces is a 1939 Warner Bros. film starring Ronald Reagan and The Dead End Kids.
Gabe Ryan (Frankie Thomas) is released from reform school and it taken to a new house by his sister Joy (Ann Sheridan) to start a new life where no...
City for Conquest
City for Conquest is a 1940 drama-film noir starring James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, and Arthur Kennedy, based on the novel of the same name by Aben Kandel.
Cagney plays a truck driver named Danny Kenny, who starts as a New York boxing contender. Ann...
Black Legion
Black Legion is a 1937 movie, starring Humphrey Bogart and Erin O'Brien-Moore in a fictionalized story about the real-life Black Legion of the 1930s.
Bogart plays Frank Taylor, a Detroit factory worker who joins the "pro-American" (i.e. anti...
The Man Who Came to Dinner
The Man Who Came to Dinner is a 1942 black-and-white comedy film based on the play of the same name by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. It stars Monty Woolley (reprising his role in the Broadway play) Bette Davis and Ann Sheridan.
Famous radio...
Torrid Zone
Torrid Zone is a 1940 adventure film starring James Cagney, Ann Sheridan and Pat O'Brien.
Steve Case (Pat O'Brien) has to deal with trouble at his tropical fruit company's Central American banana plantation. A revolutionary, Rosario La Mata (George...
George Washington Slept Here
George Washington Slept Here is a 1942 comedy film starring Jack Benny and Ann Sheridan as New Yorkers who purchase a dilapidated farmhouse where, according to rumors, George Washington spent the night. It was based on the 1940 play of the same name...
Come Next Spring
Come Next Spring (1956) is a Americana drama film made in Trucolor for Republic Pictures starring Steve Cochran as a former alcoholic who returns to the wife he deserted years ago, played by Ann Sheridan, and their children.
The theme song "Come...
Castle on the Hudson
Castle on the Hudson is a 1940 drama film directed by Anatole Litvak and starring John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, and Pat O'Brien. A thief gets sent to Sing Sing Prison, where he is befriended by the reform-minded warden. The film was based on the book...
Good Sam
Good Sam is a 1948 film starring Gary Cooper as a Good Samaritan who is helpful to others at the expense of his own family. The film was directed by Leo McCarey and produced by McCarey's production company, Rainbow Productions.
Cowboy from Brooklyn
Cowboy from Brooklyn is a 1938 American film.
Ronald Reagan starred in the film.
Singer Elly Jordan, a Brooklyn man who is terrified of animals, ends up broke along with his two musical partners at Hardy's Dude Ranch in Two Bits, Wyoming. The Hardys...
