Grant Mitchell

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

Admin — Sat, 19 Apr 1947 00:00:00 +0000

A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.

Guest Wife

Admin — Fri, 27 Jul 1945 00:00:00 +0000

Christopher Price, a small-town bank executive, continues to be loyal to and idolize his boyhood friend, Joseph Jefferson Parker, a famous war correspondent. But Chris’s wife, Mary, is none to fond of Joe and tired of her husband’s idolizing. On the eve of the Price’s second-honeymoon trip to New York City, Joe arrives and tells Chris that he needs someone to pose as his wife in order to fool his boss in NYC, who thinks Joe got married to an overseas woman while on an assignment. Chris pushes Mary into posing as Joe’s wife. In New York, this leads to many complications and misunderstandings, with Mary finally deciding to teach Chris and Joe a lesson by making them believe she is in love with Joe.

Conflict

Admin — Fri, 15 Jun 1945 00:00:00 +0000

Filmed some 18 months before its release, Conflict is one of two melodramas in which Humphrey Bogart self-consciously portrayed a wife murderer (the other was The Two Mrs. Carrolls). Bogie plays unhappily married Richard Mason, who concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife, Kathryn (Rose Hobart), so that he’ll be free to marry her sister, Evelyn (Alexis Smith).

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

Admin — Fri, 19 Feb 1943 00:00:00 +0000

Deanna Durbin stars as a missionary who goes to great lengths, even posing as “Mrs. Holliday”, in order to get some Chinese war orphans into the United States.

My Sister Eileen

Admin — Thu, 24 Sep 1942 00:00:00 +0000

Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen hopes to succeed on the stage. The two end up living in a dismal basement apartment in Greenwich Village, where a parade of odd characters are constantly breezing in and out. The women also meet up with magazine editor Bob Baker, who takes a personal interest in helping both with their career plans.

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Admin — Sat, 24 Jan 1942 00:00:00 +0000

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.

The Great Lie

Admin — Sat, 12 Apr 1941 00:00:00 +0000

Days after Sandra and Pete elope, they discover their consummated union isn’t valid since, unbeknownst to them, Sandra’s divorce isn’t yet final. They decide to not stay together, but, by then, Sandra is pregnant. She doesn’t learn that fact until after Pete marries his former fiancee Maggie. Pete, unaware of the baby, flies to South America on business. While there, a flight he is on goes missing and all onboard are presumed dead. Maggie persuades Sandra to let her adopt the baby, so she can raise it as Pete’s legitimate child. Months later Pete – alive after all – returns. Sandra and Maggie contend for him and the baby.

Footsteps in the Dark

Admin — Sat, 08 Mar 1941 00:00:00 +0000

A high-society gent has a secret life – he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.

Tobacco Road

Admin — Thu, 20 Feb 1941 00:00:00 +0000

Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank’s plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.

It All Came True

Admin — Sat, 06 Apr 1940 00:00:00 +0000

After crooked nightclub owner Chips Maguire murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother’s boarding house.