Beulah Bondi
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1888-05-03
Locus Natus: Valparaiso, Indiana, USA
Et ut: Beulah Bondy
It's a Wonderful Life
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich...
release : 1946.12.20popularis : 56.292
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed to the United States Senate by the puppet governor of his state. He...
release : 1939.10.19popularis : 9.928
Our Town
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and death in this small community.
release : 1940.05.24popularis : 3.819
The Unholy Wife
A woman marries a man for his wealth, then concocts a plan to kill him, take his money, and run off with her lover. Things go wrong when they...
release : 1957.06.24popularis : 6.014
Vivacious Lady
College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.
release : 1938.05.13popularis : 5.371
Reign of Terror
The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre,...
release : 1949.10.15popularis : 11.183
Tonight We Raid Calais
A British commando is on a one-man raid to destroy a bomb factory in Nazi-occupied France. He must enlist the aid of French farmers to complete his...
release : 1943.04.30popularis : 1.098
The Invisible Ray
Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But the element has a dangerous side, too, and it has...
release : 1936.01.20popularis : 5.896
The Furies
A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.
release : 1950.08.16popularis : 7.928
Make Way for Tomorrow
At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents' home is being foreclosed. "Temporarily," Ma moves in with son George's family, Pa with...
release : 1937.05.09popularis : 9.578
On Borrowed Time
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud's...
release : 1939.07.07popularis : 5.498
Remember the Night
When Jack, an assistant District Attorney, takes Lee, a shoplifter caught in the act, home with him for Christmas, the unexpected happens and love...
release : 1940.01.19popularis : 9.343
So Dear to My Heart
The tale of Jeremiah Kincaid and his quest to raise his 'champion' lamb, Danny. Jeremiah's dream of showing Danny at the Pike County Fair must...
release : 1948.11.29popularis : 4.555
The Shepherd of the Hills
Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt's mother and left her to die....
release : 1941.07.18popularis : 5.926
The Baron of Arizona
The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical...
release : 1950.03.04popularis : 6.577
Rain
Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pago, a small village on a Pacific island where it...
release : 1932.10.12popularis : 4.342
Penny Serenade
Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after tragedy gets in their way, as the two attempt to...
release : 1941.04.24popularis : 6.489
The Snake Pit
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions...
release : 1948.11.04popularis : 9.394
Lone Star
Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story about cattle baron Devereaux Burke, who is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam...
release : 1952.10.24popularis : 5.53
Tammy Tell Me True
Tammy leaves the river in Mississippi to attend college, developing a relationship with Tom Freeman (John Gavin). Sandra Dee replaces Debbie Reynolds...
release : 1961.07.26popularis : 2.541
The Southerner
Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle...
release : 1945.04.30popularis : 5.876
Back from Eternity
A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then...
release : 1956.09.07popularis : 2.359
The Good Fairy
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by...
release : 1935.02.18popularis : 5.385
Watch on the Rhine
On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years,...
release : 1943.08.27popularis : 5.334
Tammy and the Doctor
Tammy becomes a nurse's aide, works in a hospital, cares for an old rich woman, and causes romantic commotion in the life of Dr. Mark Cheswick.
release : 1963.05.29popularis : 2.082
A Summer Place
A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic...
release : 1959.11.18popularis : 9.096
Mr. Soft Touch
When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the...
release : 1949.07.28popularis : 2.645
Back to Bataan
An Army colonel leads a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in the Philippines.
release : 1945.05.30popularis : 10.473
Sister Kenny
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the...
release : 1946.10.10popularis : 2.478
One Foot in Heaven
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
release : 1941.11.01popularis : 5.701
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
release : 1936.03.13popularis : 3.106
Track of the Cat
A family saga: In a stunning mountain valley ranch setting near Aspen, complex and dangerous family dynamics play out against the backdrop of the...
release : 1954.11.19popularis : 3.463
The Moon's Our Home
A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware that both bride and groom are equally famous. During...
release : 1936.04.10popularis : 6.289
The Stranger's Return
A divorcée leaves New York to visit her grandfather's farm and recover in the Midwest, where she unexpectedly falls in love with a married...
release : 1933.07.28popularis : 4.614
Of Human Hearts
This is a story about family relationships, set in the time before and during the American Civil War. Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who...
release : 1938.02.11popularis : 4.448
The Gorgeous Hussy
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who...
release : 1936.08.28popularis : 4.445
And Now Tomorrow
Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't...
release : 1944.11.22popularis : 5.873
The Buccaneer
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
release : 1938.02.04popularis : 7.435
Hearts Divided
Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother, visiting the United States, falls madly in love with a young woman he meets in Baltimore.
release : 1936.06.20popularis : 3.27
The Case Against Mrs. Ames
An attorney falls for the woman he's representing on a murder charge.
release : 1936.05.08popularis : 1.189
Latin Lovers
An heiress searches for true love while vacationing in Brazil.
release : 1953.08.12popularis : 2.934
The Very Thought of You
Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, two young women who work in a parachute factory.
release : 1944.10.20popularis : 3.377
The Life of Riley
Inspired by the popular '40s radio show of the same title, director Irving Brecher's 1949 comedy stars William Bendix as a hard-working...
release : 1949.04.16popularis : 4.348
The Sainted Sisters
Two female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with money from their latest scam, hide out in a small town in Maine, near the Canadian...
release : 1948.04.30popularis : 4.225
I Love a Soldier
During World War II in San Francisco, Eve Morgan and her single girlfriends spend their days welding ships and their nights dancing with soldiers and...
release : 1944.07.12popularis : 1.304
Our Hearts Were Young and Gay
In 1923, two young ladies depart, unescorted, for a tour of Europe. Their great naïvité and efforts to seem grown-up lead them into many...
release : 1944.11.02popularis : 3.247
Two Alone
Mazie, a poor orphan girl, is mistreated by cruel farmer Slag and his wife for whom she works. Mazie, who is growing into a woman, does not like...
release : 1934.01.26popularis : 1.396
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write...
release : 1962.08.07popularis : 6.29
Bad Boy
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for...
release : 1935.10.25popularis : 2.125
The Big Fisherman
Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.
release : 1959.08.04popularis : 4.803
Street Scene
The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot....
release : 1931.09.05popularis : 7.571
Land of Liberty
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
release : 1939.06.15popularis : 2.138
Arrowsmith
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
release : 1931.12.07popularis : 7.006
Finishing School
Virginia, who studies at a boarding school for upper-class girls, falls in love with a medical intern who works as a waiter for a living. Both the...
release : 1934.05.04popularis : 11.69
Registered Nurse
In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surgeons when her husband goes mad and needs an...
release : 1934.04.06popularis : 2.05
The Under-Pup
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed...
release : 1939.08.31popularis : 2.325
Ready for Love
In this fluffy romance, a young woman fights against the narrow-minded residents of her small town. The trouble begins when a young woman flees her...
release : 1934.11.30popularis : 1.51
Maid of Salem
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem,...
release : 1937.02.12popularis : 1.775
The Sisters
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
release : 1938.10.14popularis : 4.246
Breakfast in Hollywood
The goings on of a few members of a radio show's audience is the premise for this feature film derived from the popular ABC radio show of the 1940s....
release : 1946.02.26popularis : 1.951
She's a Soldier Too
Wartime workers deal with homefront dramatics.
release : 1944.06.29popularis : 1.351
The Captain Is a Lady
Because of a bad investment, Captain and Mrs. Peabody are evicted from their home. Mrs. Peabody finds lodging at a retirement home, but as only...
release : 1940.06.21popularis : 1.169
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.
release : 1988.11.22popularis : 4.187
High Conquest
Love and adventure on the Matterhorn mountain.
release : 1947.06.21popularis : 1.407
She Waits
When a newlywed woman is taken to her husband's hometown to meet his mother, she is possessed by the vengeful spirit of his previous wife.
release : 1972.01.28popularis : 1.144
Christopher Bean
When the painter Christopher Bean dies, some unscrupulous art dealers try to get several of his paintings cheaply from a family who have no idea of...
release : 1933.11.17popularis : 1.274
On Borrowed Time
Mr. Brink seems to bring death with him wherever he goes. But can a young boy and his grandfather change this dire situation?
release : 1957.11.17popularis : 1.758