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Broken Blossoms
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1919
Actor(s): Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess
Director(s): D.W. Griffith
Length of Trailer: 1:36
Subject: Ethnic Relations
Synopsis: A poetic Chinese man cares for an adolescent girl, abused by her father.

 
Last of the Mohicans
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1920
Actor(s): Wallace Beery
Director(s): Clarence Brown, Maurice Tourneur
Length of Trailer: 1:24
Subject: French and Indian War
Synopsis: Frontiersman Natty Bumppo, Chingachgook, and his son Uncas fight to rescue Alice and Cora Munro during the French and Indian War

 
Gold Rush
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1925
Actor(s): Charlie Chaplin
Director(s): Charles Chaplin
Length of Trailer: 0:49
Subject: Slapstick
Synopsis: The Tramp goes the Klondike in search of gold.

 
General
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1927
Actor(s): Buster Keaton
Director(s): Clyde Bruckman
Length of Trailer: 1:07
Subject: Civil War
Synopsis: When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single handedly and straight through enemy lines.

 
Napoleon
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1927
Actor(s): Albert Dieudonne
Director(s): Abel Gance
Length of Trailer: 1:16
Subject: French Film
Synopsis: Napoleon's youth and early military career.

 
Metropolis
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1927
Actor(s): Alfred Abel
Director(s): Fritz Lang
Length of Trailer: 2:36
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: The Workers, led by the beautiful Maria, plan a revolt against the aloof Thinkers that dominate them in this future dystopia.

 
It
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1927
Actor(s): Clara Bow
Director(s): Clarence G. Gadger
Length of Trailer: 1:14
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: A salesgirl with plenty of "it" (sex appeal) pursues a handsome playboy.

 
Sadie Thompson
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1928
Actor(s): Gloria Swanson
Director(s): Raoul Walsh
Length of Trailer: 1:26
Subject: Drama
Synopsis: Based on a Somerset Maugham story, a missionary tries to deport a woman from a south Pacific island.

 
Cocoanuts
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1929
Actor(s): Marx Brothers
Director(s): Robert Florey, Joseph Santley
Length of Trailer: 0:34
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: During the Florida land boom, the Marx brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, and thwart a jewel robbery.

 
Broadway Melody of 1929
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1929
Actor(s): Anita Page, Bessie Love
Director(s): Harry Beaumont
Length of Trailer: 0:24
Subject: 1920s
Synopsis: Two sisters try to make it on the Broadway stage. Taglines: "100% All Talking! 100% All Singing! 100% All Dancing!" and "The pulsating drama of Broadway's bared heart speaks and sings with a voice to stir your soul!"

 
Animal Crackers
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1930
Actor(s): Marx Brothers
Director(s): Victor Heerman
Length of Trailer: 0:21
Subject: Great Depression Comedy
Synopsis: A valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.

 
Big Trail
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1930
Actor(s): John Wayne
Director(s): Raoul Walsh
Length of Trailer: 1:33
Subject: Western
Synopsis: A wagon train headed to Oregon encounters Indians, bad weather, and other challenges.

 
All Quiet on the Western Front
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1930
Actor(s): Louis Wollheim, Lew Ayres
Director(s): Lewis Milestone
Length of Trailer: 0:43
Subject: World War I
Synopsis: A group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting by a jingoist teacher, experience the horrors and disillusionments of World War I.

 
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1931
Actor(s): Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins
Director(s): Touben Mamoulian
Length of Trailer: 1:11
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: A potion transforms Dr. Jekyll into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.

 
Dracula
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1931
Actor(s): Bela Lugosi
Director(s): Tod Browning
Length of Trailer: 0:22
Subject: Horror
Synopsis: The ancient vampire Count Dracula arrives in England and begins to prey upon the virtuous young Mina.

 
City Lights
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1931
Actor(s): Charlie Chaplin
Director(s): Charles Chaplin
Length of Trailer: 0:21
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: The Tramp struggles to help a blind flower girl he has fallen in love with.

 
Mata Hari
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1931
Actor(s): Greta Garbo
Director(s): George Fitzmaurice
Length of Trailer: 0:45
Subject: World War I
Synopsis: The story of a German spy working in Paris.

 
Cimarron
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1931
Actor(s): Richard Dix, Irene Dunne
Director(s): Wesley Ruggles
Length of Trailer: 0:32
Subject: Western
Synopsis: A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.

 
Frankenstein
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1931
Actor(s): Boris Karloff
Director(s): James Whale
Length of Trailer: 0:32
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: Dr. Frankenstein creates a creature from dead human parts.

 
Monkey Business
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1931
Actor(s): Marx Brothers
Director(s): Norman Z. McLeod
Length of Trailer: 1:24
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: The Marx Brothers play stowaways on a transatlantic ship.

 
Horse Feathers
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1932
Actor(s): Marx Brothers
Director(s): Norman Z. McLeod
Length of Trailer: 0:31
Subject: College
Synopsis: Groucho becomes president of Huxley College.

 
Freaks
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1932
Actor(s): Wallace Ford
Director(s): Tod Browning
Length of Trailer: 1:18
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: Treachery is discovered amongst a traveling circus sideshow.

 
Mummy
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1932
Actor(s): Boris Karloff
Director(s): Karl Freund
Length of Trailer: 0:58
Subject: Horror
Synopsis: In 1921 an expedition discovers the mummy of Im-Ho_Tep, who was buried alive for sacrilege.

 
Grand Hotel
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1932
Actor(s): Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford
Director(s): Edmund Goulding
Length of Trailer: 0:33
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.".

 
Blonde Venus
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1932
Actor(s): Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant
Director(s): Josef von Sternberg
Length of Trailer: 1:21
Subject: Women
Synopsis: When her husband needs a life-saving operation, a woman becomes a nightclub singer, to raise funds, and, as a result, is thrown out of her home.

 
I'm No Angel
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1933
Actor(s): Mae West, Cary Grant
Director(s): Wesley Ruggles
Length of Trailer: 1:59
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: Tira, a dancing beauty and lion tamer, flirts with rich men.

 
King Kong
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1933
Actor(s): Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong
Director(s): Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Length of Trailer: 1:13
Subject: Fantasy
Synopsis: An expedition team go to a tropical island and discover a colossal giant gorilla.

 
42nd Street
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1933
Actor(s): Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, Ruby Keeler
Director(s): Lloyd Bacon
Length of Trailer: 2:19
Subject: Great Depression Musical
Synopsis: As a director puts on his last show, a chorus girl must replace the star.

 
Invisible Man
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1933
Actor(s): Claude Rains
Director(s): James Whale
Length of Trailer: 1:19
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.

 
Duck Soup
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1933
Actor(s): Marx Brothers
Director(s): Leo McCarey
Length of Trailer: 1:49
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: Rufus T. Firefly is named president of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania.

 
She Done Him Wrong
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1933
Actor(s): Mae West
Director(s): Lowell Sherman
Length of Trailer: 0:22
Subject: Comedy
Synopsis: New York singer and nightclub owner Lady Lou is pursued by a vicious criminal.

 
Gold Diggers of 1933
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1933
Actor(s): Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers
Director(s): Mervyn LeRoy
Length of Trailer: 1:13
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: Millionaire turned composer rescues unemployed Broadway people with a new play.

 
Tarzan and His Mate
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1934
Actor(s): Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan
Director(s): Cedric Gibbons
Length of Trailer: 0:55
Subject: Africa
Synopsis: The sequel to Tarzan, the Ape Man.

 
Thin Man
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1934
Actor(s): William Powell, Myrna Loy
Director(s): W.S. VanDyke
Length of Trailer: 0:35
Subject: Marriage
Synopsis: A former detective and his rich, playful wife solve a murder.

 
It Happened One Night
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1934
Actor(s): Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable
Director(s): Frank Capra
Length of Trailer: 0:56
Subject: Screwball Comedy
Synopsis: A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who's actually a reporter looking for a story.

 
A Night at the Opera
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Marx Brothers
Director(s): Sam Wood
Length of Trailer: 1:02
Subject: Great Depression Comedy
Synopsis: To bring a young couple together, an opera performance must be sabotaged.

 
Littlest Rebel
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Shirley Temple
Director(s): David Butler
Length of Trailer: 1:31
Subject: Civil War
Synopsis: Shirley Temple and "Bojangles" Robinson beg President Lincoln to spare a rebel officer.

 
Lives of a Bengal Lancer
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone
Director(s): Henry Hathaway
Length of Trailer: 1:22
Subject: British Colonialism
Synopsis: Three British soldiers on the Northwest Frontier of India struggle against invaders...and themselves. Tagline: "Always outnumbered! Never outfought! These are the Bengal Lancers…heroes all…guarding each other's lives, sharing each other's tortures, fighting each other's battles."

 
Dangerous
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Bette Davis
Director(s): Alfred E. Green
Length of Trailer: 0:38
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: Bette Davis plays a once respected theatre actress who's drifted into the seedy life of alcholism and self-pity.

 
39 Steps
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Robert Donat
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Length of Trailer: 1:54
Subject: Thriller
Synopsis: A Canadian tourist becomes embroiled in a deadly conspiracy when a spy is murdered in his rented London flat.

 
Informer
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Victor McLaglen
Director(s): John Ford
Length of Trailer: 0:59
Subject: Irish Rebellion
Synopsis: In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on a friend.

 
Alice Adams
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Katherine Hepburn, Fred MacMurray
Director(s): George Stevens
Length of Trailer: 0:24
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: A lonely misfit tries to fit in with the debutantes in her class-conscious small town.

 
Charlie Chan in Paris
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Warner Oland
Director(s): Lewis Seiler
Length of Trailer: 0:22
Subject: Mystery
Synopsis: Charlie Chan investigates a bond forgery racket in Paris.

 
Gold Diggers of 1935
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Dick Powell
Director(s): Busby Berkeley
Length of Trailer: 3:34
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: Director stages a show to get the money to pay his bills.

 
Mutiny on the Bounty
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Charles Laughton, Clark Gable
Director(s): Frank Lloyd
Length of Trailer: 3:11
Subject: Swashbuckler
Synopsis: Fletcher Christan leads a mutiny on the HMS Bounty.

 
Bride of Frankenstein
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Boris Karloff
Director(s): James Whale
Length of Trailer: 1:28
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: Dr. Frankenstein creates a mate for his monster.

 
Little Colonel
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1935
Actor(s): Shirley Temple, Lionel Barrymore
Director(s): David Butler
Length of Trailer: 1:58
Subject: Civil War
Synopsis: Shirley Temple charms her crusty grandfather after the Civil War.

 
General Died at Dawn
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1936
Actor(s): Gary Cooper
Director(s): Lewis Milestone
Length of Trailer: 0:43
Subject: China
Synopsis: In revolution-torn China, an American mercenary tangles with a ruthless warlord.

 
Great Ziegfeld
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1936
Actor(s): William Powell
Director(s): Robert Z. Leonard
Length of Trailer: 0:32
Subject: Biopic
Synopsis: This biography follows the ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld, famed producer of extravagant stage revues.

 
Last of the Mohicans
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1936
Actor(s): Randolph Scott
Director(s): George B. Seitz
Length of Trailer: 0:32
Subject: French and Indian War
Synopsis: Frontiersman Natty Bumppo, Chingachgook, and his son Uncas fight to rescue Alice and Cora Munro during the French and Indian War

 
Modern Times
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1936
Actor(s): Charlie Chaplin
Director(s): Charles Chaplin
Length of Trailer: 0:29
Subject: Labor
Synopsis: The Tramp confronts modern industrial society.

 
My Man Godfrey
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1936
Actor(s): Carole Lombard, William Powell
Director(s): Gregory LaCava
Length of Trailer: 0:27
Subject: Screwball Comedy
Synopsis: A "forgotten man" becomes a butler for a society family.

 
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1936
Actor(s): Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur
Director(s): Frank Capra
Length of Trailer: 2:38
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: Longfellow Deeds, a simple-hearted Vermont tuba player, inherits a fortune and has to contend with opportunist city slickers.

 
Heidi
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1937
Actor(s): Shirley Temple
Director(s): Allan Dwan
Length of Trailer: 1:15
Subject: Childhood
Synopsis: When little Heidi is stolen by her cruel aunt (who sells her) her grouchy grandfather searches for her.

 
Topper
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1937
Actor(s): Cary Grant, Constance Bennett
Director(s): Norman Z. McLeod
Length of Trailer: 0:39
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: A fun-loving couple, finding that they died and are now ghosts, decide to shake up the stuffy lifestyle of a friend of theirs.

 
King Solomon's Mines
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1937
Actor(s): Paul Robeson, Anna Lee
Director(s): Robert Stevenson
Length of Trailer: 1:03
Subject: Adventure
Synopsis: Fortune hunter Patrick O'Brien has left his daughter Kathy and guide Umbopa to trek across the desert.

 
Kid Galahad
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1937
Actor(s): Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart
Director(s): Michael Curtiz
Length of Trailer: 0:43
Subject: Boxing
Synopsis: Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.

 
A Day at the Races
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1937
Actor(s): Marx Brothers
Director(s): Sam Wood
Length of Trailer: 0:56
Subject: Great Depression Comedy
Synopsis: Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush, a veterinarian, is hired to save a sanatorium from a banker who wants to turn it into a casino.

 
Lost Horizon
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1937
Actor(s): Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt
Director(s): Frank Capra
Length of Trailer: 0:48
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: A plane crash delivers a group of people to the secluded land of Shangri-La.

 
Life of Emile Zola
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1937
Actor(s): Paul Muni
Director(s): William Dieterle
Length of Trailer: 0:35
Subject: Biopic
Synopsis: The story of the famous French muckracking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair.

 
Zorro Rides Again
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1937
Actor(s): John Carroll
Director(s): John English, William Witney
Length of Trailer: 3:57
Subject: Swashbuckler
Synopsis: A descendant of Zorro must protect the California-Yucatan Railroad from a gang of terrorists.

 
Awful Truth
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1937
Actor(s): Irene Dunne, Cary Grant
Director(s): Leo McCarey
Length of Trailer: 0:31
Subject: Marriage
Synopsis: Before their divorce is finalized, a couple do their best to thwart each other's remarriage plans.

 
Adventures of Robin Hood
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1938
Actor(s): Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
Director(s): Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Length of Trailer: 1:27
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army.

 
Angels with Dirty Faces
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1938
Actor(s): James Cagney, Pat O'Brien
Director(s): Michael Curtiz
Length of Trailer: 3:19
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: A mobster and a priest conspire to discourage a gang of young ruffians from embarking on a life of crime.

 
Bringing Up Baby
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1938
Actor(s): Cary Grant, Katherine Hepburn
Director(s): Howard Hawks
Length of Trailer: 2:24
Subject: Screwball Comedy
Synopsis: stuffy paleontologist loses a dinosaur bone to a dog belonging to free-spirited heiress and attempts to recover it.

 
Jezebel
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1938
Actor(s): Bette Davis
Director(s): William Wyler
Length of Trailer: 0:25
Subject: Civil War
Synopsis: A coquette fond of stirring up rivalries among the men, goes too far and loses her fiancé, but she finds atonement when she cares for him during illness.

 
Boys Town
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1938
Actor(s): Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney
Director(s): Norman Taurog
Length of Trailer: 1:47
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: Father Flanagan opens Boys Town to help juvenile delinquents go straight.

 
Old Maid
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Bette Davis
Director(s): Edmund Goulding
Length of Trailer: 0:24
Subject: Motherhood
Synopsis: An unwed mother turns her child over to a married cousin.

 
The Women
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell
Director(s): George Cukor
Length of Trailer: 0:43
Subject: Women
Synopsis: A group of catty, competitive friends destroy reputations and fight over husbands and lovers.

 
Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Director(s): H.C. Potter
Length of Trailer: 0:19
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: The story of Vernon and Irene Castle, sensational ballroom dancers prior to World War I.

 
Destry Rides Again
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart
Director(s): George Marshall
Length of Trailer: 1:48
Subject: Western
Synopsis: The nonviolent son of a famous lawman, who is brought into an out of control town to restore law and order.

 
Dark Victory
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Bette Davis
Director(s): Edmund Goulding
Length of Trailer: 0:29
Subject: Women
Synopsis: A brain tumor transforms a socialite's wild life.

 
Buck Rogers
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore
Director(s): Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind
Length of Trailer: 1:45
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: A pilot and his passenger, kept in suspended animation for 500 years, lead resistance to a despot who rules the Earth.

 
Stagecoach
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): John Wayne, Claire Trevor
Director(s): John Ford
Length of Trailer: 3:26
Subject: Western
Synopsis: A diverse and troubled group of passengers travels by stagecoach.

 
Rules of the Game
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost
Director(s): Jean Renoir
Length of Trailer: 0:17
Subject: French Film
Synopsis: The life of France's rich on the eve of World War II.

 
Beau Geste
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Robert Preston
Director(s): William A. Wellman
Length of Trailer: 0:25
Subject: Action
Synopsis: Three brothers join the French Foreign Legion and confront a sadistic sergeant.

 
Little Princess
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Shirley Temple
Director(s): Walter Lang
Length of Trailer: 1:20
Subject: Childhood
Synopsis: The daughter of a soldier in the Boer War is made into a servant by the evil headmistress of a boarding school

 
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): James Stewart, Jean Arthur
Director(s): Frank Capra
Length of Trailer: 1:41
Subject: Politics
Synopsis: A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the US Senate and promptly collide with political corruption, and doesn't back down.

 
Wizard of Oz
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Judy Garland
Director(s): Victor Fleming
Length of Trailer: 1:39
Subject: Fantasy
Synopsis: Dorothy Gale is swept away from Kansas to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home.

 
Ninotchka
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Greta Garbo
Director(s): Ernst Lubitsch
Length of Trailer: 2:22
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: A Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

 
At the Circus
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Marx Brothers
Director(s): Edward Buzzell
Length of Trailer: 1:28
Subject: Comedy
Synopsis: A crackpot lawyer, a circus hand, a strongman's assistant, and a gorilla try to save a financially troubled circus.

 
Gone with the Wind
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable
Director(s): Victor Fleming
Length of Trailer: 1:42
Subject: Civil War
Synopsis: Epic story of a southern woman who can cope with everything in the Civil War except losing the love of the man she wants to another.

 
Gunga Din
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Director(s): George Stevens
Length of Trailer: 1:19
Subject: British Colonialism
Synopsis: In 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land.

 
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Robert Donat
Director(s): Sam Wood
Length of Trailer: 0:48
Subject: Education
Synopsis: An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.

 
Hound of the Baskervilles
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1939
Actor(s): Basil Rathbone
Director(s): Sidney Lanfield
Length of Trailer: 1:43
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: Sherlock Holmes ,aided by Dr Watson, investigates mysterious deaths apparently caused by a family curse.

 
Shop Around the Corner
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): James Stewart, Margaret Sulavan
Director(s): Ernst Lutitsch
Length of Trailer: 4:03
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: Co-workers correspond and fall in love, not realizing that they are writing to each other.

 
Thief of Bagdad
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): Conrad Veidt, Sabu
Director(s): Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell
Length of Trailer: 0:27
Subject: Fantasy
Synopsis: Prince Achmad, the rightful King of Bagdad, and Abu, undertake a series of adventures that involve a Djinni in a bottle, a mechanical flying horse, an all-seeing magic jewel, a flying carpet and a beautiful princess.

 
Bank Dick
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): W.C. Fields
Director(s): Edward F. Cline
Length of Trailer: 1:52
Subject: Comedy
Synopsis: A henpecked husband and father replaces a drunken film director, foils a bank robbery, and becomes involved in embezzlement.

 
Knute Rockne: All American
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): Ronald Reagan, Pat O'Brien
Director(s): Lloyd Bacon
Length of Trailer: 2:04
Subject: Sports
Synopsis: The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

 
Santa Fe Trail
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): Ronald Reagan, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland
Director(s): Michael Curtiz
Length of Trailer: 2:35
Subject: Antebellum Era
Synopsis: The story of Jeb Stewart, his romance with Kit Carson Holliday, friendship with George Custer and battles with John Brown.

 
Go West
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): Marx Brothers
Director(s): Edward Buzzell
Length of Trailer: 2:26
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: Confidence man heads west to find his fortune.

 
Philadelphia Story
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart
Director(s): George Cukor
Length of Trailer: 2:10
Subject: Marriage
Synopsis: A rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage.

 
Knute Rockne
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan
Director(s): Lloyd Bacon
Length of Trailer: 1:52
Subject: Sports
Synopsis: The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

 
Sea Hawk
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): Errol Flynn
Director(s): Michael Curtiz
Length of Trailer: 2:16
Subject: Swashbuckler
Synopsis: A pirate attacks Spanish ships for the good of England. Tagline: "The Robin Hood of the Sea."

 
His Girl Friday
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell
Director(s): Howard Hawks
Length of Trailer: 2:48
Subject: Journalism
Synopsis: A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.

 
My Little Chickadee
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): W.C. Fields, Mae West
Director(s): Edward F. Cline
Length of Trailer: 1:35
Subject: Comedy
Synopsis: Flower Belle Lee meets a con man and pretends to marry him for "respectability."

 
Rebecca
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1940
Actor(s): Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Length of Trailer: 0:52
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A a naive young woman marries a rich widower, and finds the memory of the first wife maintaining a grip on her husband and the servants.

 
Lady Eve
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1941
Actor(s): Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda
Director(s): Preston Sturges
Length of Trailer: 1:36
Subject: Screwball Comedy
Synopsis: The rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship.

 
Ball of Fire
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1941
Actor(s): Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper
Director(s): Howard Hawks
Length of Trailer: 0:26
Subject: Rolmance
Synopsis: A lexicographer researching an article on slang meets nightclub singer Sugarpuss O'Shea.

 
Maltese Falcon
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1941
Actor(s): Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor
Director(s): John Huston
Length of Trailer: 0:42
Subject: Mystery
Synopsis: Sam Spade, a private detective, gets involved in a murderous hunt for a valuable statuette.

 
How Green Was My Valley
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1941
Actor(s): Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara
Director(s): John Ford
Length of Trailer: 1:43
Subject: Drama
Synopsis: Life in a turn of the century Welsh mining village.

 
Citizen Kane
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1941
Actor(s): Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton
Director(s): Orson Welles
Length of Trailer: 0:29
Subject: Journalism
Synopsis: Powerful newspaper owner Charles Foster Kane was many things to many people, both in life and, as seen in retrospective here, in death.

 
Sullivan's Travels
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1941
Actor(s): Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake
Director(s): Preston Sturges
Length of Trailer: 1:49
Subject: Great Depression
Synopsis: A director of escapist films goes on the road as a hobo to learn about life.

 
Big Store
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1941
Actor(s): Marx Brothers
Director(s): Charles Reisner
Length of Trailer: 0:29
Subject: Comedy
Synopsis: Private eye Wolf J. Flywheel investigates an attempted murder of a department store owner.

 
Sergeant York
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1941
Actor(s): Gary Cooper
Director(s): Howard Hawks
Length of Trailer: 0:26
Subject: World War I
Synopsis: A backwoods pacifist drafted in World War I becomes a war hero.

 
Magnificent Ambersons
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Orson Welles
Director(s): Orson Welles
Length of Trailer: 1:37
Subject: Turn of the Century
Synopsis: The haunting story of a wealthy Midwestern family’s struggle to adapt to the rapidly changing world at the turn of the twentieth century.

 
Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Lon Chaney, Jr., Bela Lugosi
Director(s): Roy William Neill
Length of Trailer: 0:57
Subject: Horror
Synopsis: The Wolf Man seeks to rid himself of the werewolf curse.

 
DuBarry Was a Lady
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Red Skelton, Lucille Ball
Director(s): Roy Del Ruth
Length of Trailer: 1:35
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A hat check boys wins a jackpot, which convinces a showgirl to marry him, even though she doesn't love him.

 
King's Row
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Ronald Reagan, Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings
Director(s): Sam Wood
Length of Trailer: 2:42
Subject: Small Town America
Synopsis: Five children in an apparently ideal American small town find their lives changing as the years pass near the turn of the century in 1900.

 
In Which We Serve
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Noel Coward, John Mills
Director(s): Noel Coward, David Lean
Length of Trailer: 1:12
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: The story of a destroyer, told in flashbacks as survivors cling to a dingy.

 
Mrs. Miniver
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon
Director(s): William Wyler
Length of Trailer: 0:33
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: An English family's life during the first months of World War II.

 
Casablanca
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman
Director(s): Michael Curtiz
Length of Trailer: 2:17
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A nightclub owner finds his world turned upside down, when his lost love, accompanied by her Resistance-leading husband, arrives in wartime Casablanca.

 
Woman of the Year
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Katherine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy
Director(s): George Stevens
Length of Trailer: 0:56
Subject: Marriage
Synopsis: A brash sports reporter and a brilliant political commentator seek to keep their marriage from falling apart.

 
Reap the Wild Wind
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard
Director(s): Cecil B. DeMille
Length of Trailer: 0:39
Subject: Swashbuckler
Synopsis: Salvagers and pirates in the Florida Keys in the 1840s.

 
Holiday Inn
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Bing Crosby
Director(s): Mark Sandrich
Length of Trailer: 0:51
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: Entertainers and rivals run an inn that is only open on holidays.

 
Now Voyager
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Bette Davis
Director(s): Irving Rapper
Length of Trailer: 0:29
Subject: Women
Synopsis: Boston spinster blossoms under therapy.

 
Palm Beach Story
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrae
Director(s): Preston Sturges
Length of Trailer: 1:41
Subject: Marriage
Synopsis: An inventor's wife decides to divorce her husband and marry a millionaire to get him money to develop his big idea.

 
Saboteur
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Length of Trailer: 0:41
Subject: Thriller
Synopsis: An aircraft factory worker is falsely accused of starting a fire that killed his best friend.

 
I Married a Witch
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Veronica Lake, Fredric March
Director(s): Rene Clair
Length of Trailer: 1:31
Subject: Romance
Synopsis: A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.

 
Road to Morocco
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
Director(s): David Butler
Length of Trailer: 0:41
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for Princess Shalmar.

 
Wake Island
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Brian Donlevy
Director(s): John Farrow
Length of Trailer: 1:40
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines try to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base in December 1941.

 
For Me and My Gal
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1942
Actor(s): Judy Garland, George Murphy
Director(s): Busby Berkeley
Length of Trailer: 2:10
Subject: World War I
Synopsis: A vaudeville artist avoids the World War I draft and then makes up for this.

 
Madame Curie
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon
Director(s): Mervyn LeRoy
Length of Trailer: 2:07
Subject: Women
Synopsis: The life of the Polish physicist.

 
Lassie Come Home
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Roddy McDowall
Director(s): Fred M. Wilcox
Length of Trailer: 0:39
Subject: Animals
Synopsis: After the Carraclough family is forced to sell their dog, the animal sets out on a perilous journey to rejoin them.

 
Heaven Can Wait
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Gene Tierney, Don Ameche
Director(s): Ernest Lubitsch
Length of Trailer: 0:34
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A recently deceased man tries to persuade Satan that he has sinned enough to enter Hades.

 
Guy Named Joe
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson
Director(s): Victor Fleming
Length of Trailer: 1:01
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A dead World War II pilot serves as the guardian angel for another pilot and helps him romance his old girlfriend.

 
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman
Director(s): Sam Wood
Length of Trailer: 2:13
Subject: Spanish Civil War
Synopsis: An idealistic American fighting in the Spanish Civil war, falls in love with a young peasant woman, causing resentment among the leader of the Spanish guerrillas.

 
Bataan
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Robert Taylor, George Murphy
Director(s): Tay Garnett
Length of Trailer: 1:21
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A group of American veterans and raw recruits and stalwart Filipino fight a rear-guard actionin the Philippines, covering Douglas MacArthur's retreat, and are gradually wittled down by disease and combat deaths.

 
Song of Bernadette
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Jennifer Jones
Director(s): Henry King
Length of Trailer: 2:25
Subject: Religion
Synopsis: In 1858 in a grotto near Lourdes, a 14 year old has a vision, and government officials and clergy seek to suppress the girl.

 
Ape Man
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Bela Lugosi
Director(s): William Beaudine
Length of Trailer: 0:12
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: A scientists transforms himself into an ape-man.

 
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Eddie Cantor, Humphrey Bogart
Director(s): David Butler
Length of Trailer: 2:01
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: Producers stage a wartime charity show.

 
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Eddie Cantor, Humphrey Bogart
Director(s): David Butler
Length of Trailer: 2:00
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: Producers, putting together a benefit show, promote an unknown singer and songwriter.

 
Stormy Weather
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway
Director(s): Andrew L. Stone
Length of Trailer: 1:06
Subject: African American
Synopsis: This all black-musical focuses on the intersecting careers of a dancer and a singer, who met after World War I.

 
Thousands Cheer
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Gene Kelly, Kathryn Grayson
Director(s): George Sidney
Length of Trailer: 1:50
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: An acrobat, how soldier, tries to befriend the colonel's daughter.

 
Ape Man
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Bela Lugosi
Director(s): William Beaudine
Length of Trailer: 0:19
Subject: Science Fiction
Synopsis: A scientists transforms himself into an ape-man.

 
Phantom of the Opera
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Nelson Eddy
Director(s): Arthur Lubin
Length of Trailer: 1:41
Subject: Theater
Synopsis: A disfigured violist haunts the Paris opera house.

 
Rear Gunner
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 1943
Actor(s): Ronald Reagan, Burgess Meredith
Director(s): Ray Enright
Length of Trailer: 13:50
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: Training of aerial rear gunners in World War II.

 
Arsenic and Old Lace
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Cary Grant
Director(s): Frank Capra
Length of Trailer: 0:55
Subject: Thriller
Synopsis: Two elderly women poison men with elderberry wine; their nephew tries to stop them.

 
To Have and Have Not
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
Director(s): Howard Hawks
Length of Trailer: 1:29
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A boat captain reluctantly agrees to help the French Resistance.

 
Cover Girl
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Eve Arden
Director(s): Charles Vidor
Length of Trailer: 0:20
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: When a dancer wins a "cover girl" contest, her romance with her choreography and boyfriend.

 
Double Indemnity
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray
Director(s): Billy Wilder
Length of Trailer: 1:39
Subject: Film Noir
Synopsis: An insurance salesman becomes involved in murder and fraud, arousing his company's suspicions.

 
National Velvet
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Elizabeth Taylor
Director(s): Clarence Brown
Length of Trailer: 0:55
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: Young Velvet Brown trains a horse she has won in a town lotter for the Grand National, England's greatest horse race.

 
Follow the Boys
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): George Raft
Director(s): A. Edward Sutherland
Length of Trailer: 1:11
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A vaudevillian organizes entertainment for the troops fighting overseas.

 
Meet Me in St. Louis
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien
Director(s): Vincente Minnelli
Length of Trailer: 0:40
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: At the turn of the twentieth century, a St. Louis family is thrown into upheaval by the prospect of moving to New York.

 
Gaslight
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman
Director(s): George Cukor
Length of Trailer: 1:53
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: An ostensibly loving husband attempts to drive his wife insane in order to recover valuable jewels.

 
Going My Way
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Bing Crosby
Director(s): Leo McCarey
Length of Trailer: 1:09
Subject: Religion
Synopsis: A young Catholic priest helps a troubled parish struggle back to its feet.

 
Hail the Conquering Hero
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Eddie Bracken
Director(s): Preston Sturges
Length of Trailer: 0:46
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A young Marine, discharged due to hay fever, returns home where he is greeted as a "conquering hero."

 
Henry V
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Laurence Olivier
Director(s): Laurence Olivier
Length of Trailer: 1:56
Subject: Theater
Synopsis: A courageous monarch leads his people ot victory over the strong French army.

 
Mr. Skeffington
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Bette Davis, Claude Rains
Director(s): Vincent Sherman
Length of Trailer: 0:30
Subject: Women
Synopsis: A wealthy, selfish woman marries a man for his money before abandoning him and their child.

 
Miracle of Morgan's Creek
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken
Director(s): Preston Sturges
Length of Trailer: 0:32
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A small-town young woman attends a party only to discovery that she has married a soldier she can't recall and is pregnant.

 
Laura
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews
Director(s): Otto Preminger
Length of Trailer: 1:25
Subject: Crime
Synopsis: A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.

 
Lifeboat
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Length of Trailer: 0:30
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: Survivors of a sunken ship rescue a sailor from the U-boat that torpedoed their ship.

 
Ministry of Fear
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Ray Milland
Director(s): Fritz Lang
Length of Trailer: 1:59
Subject: Film Noir
Synopsis: A man wrongfully accused of murder must prove his innocence.

 
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1944
Actor(s): Van Johnson, Robert Walker
Director(s): Mervyn LeRoy
Length of Trailer: 0:57
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: The story of the "Doolittle Raid," an attack on Tokyo designed to boost American morale after the attack on Pearl Harbor and a string of military defeats.

 
Lost Weekend
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1945
Actor(s): Ray Milland, Jane Wyman
Director(s): Billy Wilder
Length of Trailer: 1:25
Subject: Alcoholism
Synopsis: An unsuccessful writer's four-day drinking bout.

 
Anchor's Away
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1945
Actor(s): Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly
Director(s): George Sidney
Length of Trailer: 0:56
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: Two sailors, one innocent, one experienced, on leave in Los Angeles sing and dance in this movie musical.

 
Back to Bataan
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1945
Actor(s): John Wayne, Anthony Quinn
Director(s): Edward Dmytryk
Length of Trailer: 2:31
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: An American officer and the grandson of a legendary Filipino revolutionary organize resistance against the Japanese following General MacArthur's withdrawal in 1942.

 
They Were Expendable
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1945
Actor(s): Robert Montgomery, John Wayne
Director(s): John Ford
Length of Trailer: 0:35
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A PT-boat squadron in the Philippines battles with Navy brass and the Japanese between December 1941 and April 1942.

 
Spellbound
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1945
Actor(s): Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Length of Trailer: 0:30
Subject: Film Noir
Synopsis: A psychologist tries to solve a murder by deciphering clues hidden in the mind of a paranoid amnesiac.

 
Mildred Pierce
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1945
Actor(s): Joan Crawford
Director(s): Michael Curtiz
Length of Trailer: 0:18
Subject: Women
Synopsis: A single mother's battles with a cut-throat business partner and a spoiled daughter.

 
Children of Paradise
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1945
Actor(s): Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault
Director(s): Marcel Carne
Length of Trailer: 2:26
Subject: French Film
Synopsis: The ill-fated love between a theater mime and an actress in nineteenth century France.

 
Bells of St. Mary's
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1945
Actor(s): Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman
Director(s): Leo McCarey
Length of Trailer: 1:50
Subject: Religion
Synopsis: A happy-go-lucky priest helps out a financially strapped parochial school in a sequel to Going My Way (1944).

 
State Fair
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1945
Actor(s): Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews
Director(s): Walter Lang
Length of Trailer: 1:16
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: At the Iowa State Fair a girl falls in love with a journalist and her brother woos a footloose singer.

 
Yearling
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman
Director(s): Clarence Brown
Length of Trailer: 0:36
Subject: Family
Synopsis: A pioneer boy's love for a fawn in post-Civil War Florida.

 
Till the Clouds Roll By
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): June Allyson, Robert Walker
Director(s): Richard Whorf
Length of Trailer: 1:36
Subject: Music
Synopsis: The life of Boradway composer Jerome Kern.

 
Ziegfeld Follies
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball
Director(s): Lemuel Ayers
Length of Trailer: 2:38
Subject: Music
Synopsis: The late showman Florenz Ziegfeld imagines what kind of revue he could put on in 1946.

 
Beauty and the Beast
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): Jean Marais, Josette Day
Director(s): Jean Cocteau
Length of Trailer: 3:09
Subject: French Film
Synopsis: A gentle beauty discover the sensitive soul hidden beneath the beast's monstrous exterior.

 
Best Years of Our Lives
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Dana Andrews
Director(s): William Wyler
Length of Trailer: 1:47
Subject: Postwar
Synopsis: Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have irreparably changed.

 
Big Sleep
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
Director(s): Howard Hawks
Length of Trailer: 0:30
Subject: Film Noir
Synopsis: Cynical private eye Philip Marlowe is hired to deal with a blackmailer who is shaking down a wealthy man's daughter.

 
Gilda
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford
Director(s): Charles Vidor
Length of Trailer: 2:09
Subject: Women
Synopsis: The boss of a South American casino becomes jealous over the relationship between his sensuous new wife and his right-hand man.

 
It's a Wonderful Life
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): James Stewart, Donna Reed
Director(s): Frank Capra
Length of Trailer: 0:31
Subject: Fantasy
Synopsis: An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would had been like if he never existed.

 
Jolson Story
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): Larry Parks
Director(s): Alfred E. Green
Length of Trailer: 2:16
Subject: Biopic
Synopsis: The life story of singer Al Jolson, the son of a Jewish cantor.

 
Postman Always Rings Twice
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): Lana Turner, John Garfield
Director(s): Tay Garnett
Length of Trailer: 0:30
Subject: Film Noir
Synopsis: A handyman and his employer's wife have an affair that leads to murder.

 
Notorious
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Length of Trailer: 0:36
Subject: Thriller
Synopsis: A woman is asked to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in South America and expose it.

 
Night and Day
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1946
Actor(s): Cary Grant, Alexis Smith
Director(s): Michael Curtiz
Length of Trailer: 2:18
Subject: Music
Synopsis: Fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.

 
Lady from Shanghai
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1947
Actor(s): Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane
Director(s): Orson Welles
Length of Trailer: 1:52
Subject: Film Noir
Synopsis: An Irish sailor who accompanies a beautiful woman and her handicapped husband on a cruise and becomes involved in a murder plot.

 
Gentleman's Agreement
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1947
Actor(s): Gregory Peck
Director(s): Elia Kazan
Length of Trailer: 2:10
Subject: Anti-Semitism
Synopsis: A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.

 
Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1947
Actor(s): Cary Grant, Shirley Temple, Myrna Loy
Director(s): Irving Reis
Length of Trailer: 2:14
Subject: Adolescents
Synopsis: A high school girl falls for a playboy artist.

 
Key Largo
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1948
Actor(s): Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
Director(s): John Huston
Length of Trailer: 0:42
Subject: Crime
Synopsis: A gangster holds a group of people hostage in a rundown hotel in the Florida Keys during a hurricane.

 
Red River
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1948
Actor(s): John Wayne, Montgomery Cilft
Director(s): Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
Length of Trailer: 0:42
Subject: Western
Synopsis: A Texas cattle baron clashes with his devoted ward.

 
Mr. Blanding Builds his Dream House
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1948
Actor(s): Cary Grant, Myrna Loy
Director(s): H.C. Potter
Length of Trailer: 0:32
Subject: Comedy
Synopsis: New Yorkers attempt to build a new home in the country.

 
Easter Parade
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1948
Actor(s): Fred Astaire, Judy Garland
Director(s): Charles Walters
Length of Trailer: 1:30
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: After his dancing partner sets out on her own, a dancer vows he can pick any chorus girl and make her a star.

 
Fort Apache
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1948
Actor(s): John Wayne, Henry Fonda
Director(s): John Ford
Length of Trailer: 2:19
Subject: Western
Synopsis: Resentful of his loss in rank after serving gallantly in the Civil War, the vainglorious Lt. Col. Owen Thursday insists upon imposing rigid authority on Fort Apache and is anxious to do battle with the local Indians, despite being told that tensions are caused by corrupt white Indian agents.

 
Samson and Delilah
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1949
Actor(s): Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature
Director(s): Cecil B. DeMille
Length of Trailer: 2:01
Subject: Religion
Synopsis: The Biblical story of the strongman and the woman who destroys his strength by cutting his hair.

 
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1949
Actor(s): John Wayne, Joanne Dru
Director(s): John Ford
Length of Trailer: 2:16
Subject: Western
Synopsis: An aging cavalry officer's difficulties preparing for his impending retirement.

 
Adam's Rib
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1949
Actor(s): Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn
Director(s): George Cukor
Length of Trailer: 2:28
Subject: Women
Synopsis: Two lawyers, husband and wife, clash in the courtroom.

 
Third Man
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1949
Actor(s): Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton
Director(s): Orson Welles
Length of Trailer: 1:12
Subject: Cold War
Synopsis: A writer's attempt to learn the truth about an old friend in Vienna, a revealing glimpse of postwar intrigue, paranoia, and corruption.

 
Sands of Iwo Jima
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1949
Actor(s): John Wayne
Director(s): Allan Dwan
Length of Trailer: 0:28
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A tough Marine sergeant, embittered after his wife and son leave him, trains a squad of naïve, rebellious recruits at a New Zealand military station in 1943.

 
All the King's Men
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1949
Actor(s): Broderick Crawford, John Ireland
Director(s): Robert Rossen
Length of Trailer: 2:35
Subject: Politics
Synopsis: Based on Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, the film tells the story of a populist Louisana politician modeled on Huey Long who belies his "man of the people" roots as he ruthlessly maneuvers, lies, and deals his way into the halls of power.

 
On the Town
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1949
Actor(s): Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Jules Munshin
Director(s): Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Length of Trailer: 0:40
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: Three sailors receive a 24-hour leave in New York City.

 
Little Women
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1949
Actor(s): June Allyson, Margaret O'Brien, Eizabeth Taylor
Director(s): Mervyn LeRoy
Length of Trailer: 0:43
Subject: Family
Synopsis: Four New England sisters mature during the Civil War.

 
Ma and Pa Kettle
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1949
Actor(s): Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride
Director(s): Charles Lamont
Length of Trailer: 0:32
Subject: Family
Synopsis: The humorous exploits of a impoverished family with fifteen children.

 
Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1949
Actor(s): Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston
Director(s): John Huston
Length of Trailer: 0:41
Subject: Post World War II
Synopsis: Three prospectors discover a vein of gold, then grow increasingly paranoid and violent.

 
Twelve O'Clock High
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1949
Actor(s): Gregory Peck, Hugh Marlowe
Director(s): Henry King
Length of Trailer: 1:10
Subject: World War II
Synopsis: A callous general and his bomber grew develop mutual respect and admiration.

 
Father of the Bride
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1950
Actor(s): Spencer Tracy
Director(s): Vincente Minnelli
Length of Trailer: 1:01
Subject: Family
Synopsis: A father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, and the financial and organizational pain of arranging her wedding.

 
Harvey
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1950
Actor(s): James Stewart
Director(s): Harvey Koster
Length of Trailer: 1:45
Subject: Fantasy
Synopsis: Mild-mannered man has an invisible friend resembling a 6-foot rabbit.

 
Broken Arrow
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1950
Actor(s): James Stewart, Jeff Chandler
Director(s): Delmer Davies
Length of Trailer: 0:38
Subject: Indians
Synopsis: Attempt to make peace between settlers and Apaches.

 
Sunset Blvd
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1950
Actor(s): William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim
Director(s): Billy Wilder
Length of Trailer: 1:21
Subject: Post World War II
Synopsis: Recently deceased hack writer Joe Gillis tells of his excursions with delusional silent movie star Norma Desmond.

 
Kim
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1950
Actor(s): Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell
Director(s): Victor Saville
Length of Trailer: 1:49
Subject: British Colonialism
Synopsis: A colonial boy raised is a native Indian.

 
An American in Paris
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1951
Actor(s): Gene Kelly, Lelie Caron
Director(s): Vincente Minnelli
Length of Trailer: 0:45
Subject: Musical
Synopsis: A struggling American painter in Paris, is "discovered" by an influential heiress with an interest in more than his art.

 
Bedtime for Bonzo
Type: Clip
Year of Film: 1951
Actor(s): Ronald Reagan, Jane Linden
Director(s): Frederick De Cordova
Length of Trailer: 2:30
Subject: Postwar
Synopsis: Professor Peter Boyd tries to teach human morals to a chimpanzee.

 
Place in the Sun
Type: Trailer
Year of Film: 1951
Actor(s): Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters