Charles Brackett

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Dir. Billy Wilder · With William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.

Dir. Ernst Lubitsch · With Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire

Longtime alcoholic Don Birnam has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother and girlfriend, he begins a four-day bender that just might be his last – one way or another.

Dir. Billy Wilder · With Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.

Dir. Howard Hawks · With Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka

Low on funds, working-class girl Susan Applegate disguises herself as a youngster in order to pay half fare home. But little 'Sue Sue' finds herself in a whole heap of grownup trouble when she hides out in a compartment with handsome Major Philip Kirby.

Dir. Billy Wilder · With Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Rita Johnson

In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the US congresswoman investigating her.

Dir. Billy Wilder · With Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund

American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the line of his ex-wives and undertakes her own strategy to tame him.

Dir. Ernst Lubitsch · With Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Edward Everett Horton

An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

Dir. Henry Levin · With James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Pat Boone

During the 1942 North African campaign, a British straggler passes as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Erwin Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may provide an even better use.

Dir. Billy Wilder · With Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff

Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man. While Ray initially thinks Polly is overreacting, things between George and Rose soon take a shockingly dark turn.

Dir. Henry Hathaway · With Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters

Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.

Dir. Jean Negulesco · With Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner