Wabash Avenue (
1950) | IMDb:
6.1
Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position untenable. He also hopes to turn Ruby Summers, Mike's motor-mouthed burlesque queen, into a classier entertainer, and incidentally to make her his own. But at the last minute, Andy's revenge comes unravelled.
Starring:
Betty Grable
,
Victor Mature
,
Phil Harris
,
Reginald Gardiner
,
James Barton
,
Barry Kelley
Directed by:
Henry Koster
Produced by:
William Perlberg
The Song of Bernadette (
1943) | IMDb:
7.6
In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the city dump. She never claims it to be anything other than this, but the townspeople all assume it to be the Virgin Mary. The pompous government officials think she is nuts, and do their best to suppress the girl and her followers, and the church wants nothing to do with the whole matter. But as Bernadette attracts wider and wider attention, the phenomenon overtakes everyone in the the town, and transforms their lives.
Starring:
Jennifer Jones
,
William Eythe
,
Charles Bickford
,
Vincent Price
,
Lee J. Cobb
,
Gladys Cooper
Directed by:
Henry King