1940 Movies

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

A bookish co-ed is pranked into attending a formal dance, but her stepsister refuses to help her prepare. With support from a cook and her cousin, she...

In this low-budget musical, two sets of politically ambitious parents attempt to pair up their youngsters who unfortunately despise each other and onl...

Allied propaganda in the form of cartoons and newsreels shows the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

Residents of a small frontier town take up arms when vigilantes try to block a railroad right-of-way.

Produced by MGM in cooperation with the U.S. Navy, this short film follows U.S. naval aviators through their basic training in Florida and advanced tr...

An eccentric woman detective investigates the murders of several people who visited the same medium.

In this musical, the second entry in a five-film series, a thrift shop owner sells his business and buys a small time radio station. He begins looking...

A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.

Working peasants Sardioni and Yagora are friends. Yagora and fellow villagers do not know that Sardion is a foreign intelligence agent. Yagora's son,...

In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his iden...

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

To impress a millionaire uncle well, his niece poses as a house maid. When the real maid arrives, she poses as the wife.

Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.

A play by Noël Coward recorded for radio starring Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier.

The tailor Tosse is ordered to return to his old regiment to practice what he learned many years ago. But he asks his assistant Loffe to go there inst...

Marital comedy in which a department store mannequin is mistaken for "the other woman".

Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.

A crop of millionaire inmates struggle to get accustomed to prison life, while inmate Nick Burton watches out for everyone's interests on the inside.

A young orphan girl begins to witness strange phenomena in the house where she lives with her godparents.